Controls on water use for thermoelectric generation: Case study Texas, U.S.

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 11326-11334

  Scanlon, Bridget R ^a,b   Reedy, Robert C ^a,b   Duncan, Ian ^a,b   Mullican, William F ^a,b   Young, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Mullican and Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL GAS COMBINED CYCLE PLANTS; NATURAL GAS COMBINED CYCLES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PRIMARY CONTROL; THERMOELECTRIC COOLING; THERMOELECTRIC GENERATION; WATER CONSUMPTION; WATER WITHDRAWAL;

COMBINED CYCLE POWER PLANTS; COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; COOLING TOWERS; LAKES; NATURAL GAS; STEAM TURBINES; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

WATER SUPPLY;

COAL; NATURAL GAS;

COOLING; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; NATURAL GAS; THERMAL POWER; WATER DEMAND; WATER USE;

ARTICLE; COOLING; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENERGY RESOURCE; GENERATOR; POND; RELIABILITY; UNITED STATES; WATER AVAILABILITY;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

POWER PLANTS; TEXAS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84885123385     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es4029183     Document Type: Article

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