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Modeling, Validation and Analysis of the Performance of Direct Air-Cooling Condensers for Mountainous Terrain

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  • Xubo Lu

    (Key Laboratory of Condition Monitoring and Control for Power Plant Equipment, North China Electric Power University, Ministry of Education, Beijing 102206, China)

  • Hongyi Chen

    (China Nuclear Power Engineering Co., Ltd., Beijing 100840, China)

  • Jingyao Wang

    (Key Laboratory of Condition Monitoring and Control for Power Plant Equipment, North China Electric Power University, Ministry of Education, Beijing 102206, China)

  • Huimin Wei

    (Key Laboratory of Condition Monitoring and Control for Power Plant Equipment, North China Electric Power University, Ministry of Education, Beijing 102206, China)

  • Xiaoze Du

    (Key Laboratory of Condition Monitoring and Control for Power Plant Equipment, North China Electric Power University, Ministry of Education, Beijing 102206, China
    School of Energy and Power Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, China)

Abstract

Direct air-cooling systems use air instead of water as a cooling medium, so they are easily affected by meteorological and hydrological conditions. In this paper, considering the complex geographic conditions around the direct air-cooling units, Gambit is used to model the direct air-cooling system, including the complex mountainous terrain, and the performance simulation of the direct air-cooling system and the complex mountainous terrain near the power plant is realized by combining the CFD method with the MATLAB mathematical model of the power plant. Through the simulation, the operation of the ACC system under various meteorological conditions is obtained, and the influence of environmental factors and complex geographic conditions on the performance of the ACC system is investigated and further analyzed for the special case of the back-furnace wind. On this basis, a clustering analysis algorithm was used to obtain the results of turbine zoning in different wind directions and to analyze the physical field shifts of the units caused by geographic factors.

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  • Xubo Lu & Hongyi Chen & Jingyao Wang & Huimin Wei & Xiaoze Du, 2025. "Modeling, Validation and Analysis of the Performance of Direct Air-Cooling Condensers for Mountainous Terrain," Energies, MDPI, vol. 18(8), pages 1-35, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:18:y:2025:i:8:p:2010-:d:1634602
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