A numerical model of a cooling tower plume is employed to study the possible atmospheric effects of thermal plumes from natural draft dry cooling towers. Calculations are performed for both single and multiple towers, each of which can dissipate the waste heat from a nominal 1000 MWe power generating unit, and the results are compared with those for wet cooling towers associated with plants of the same generating capacity. Dry cooling tower plumes are found to have a higher potential for inducing convective clouds than wet cooling tower plumes, under most summertime meteorological conditions. This is due to the fact that both the sensible heat and momentum fluxes from a dry tower in summer are approximately one order of magnitude larger than those from a wet cooling tower.
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Potential Weather Modification Caused by Waste Heat Release from Large Dry Cooling Towers
Jiin-lang Lee
Jiin-lang Lee
Energy and Environmental Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Ill. 60439
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Jiin-lang Lee
Energy and Environmental Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Ill. 60439
J. Heat Transfer. Feb 1979, 101(1): 164-168 (5 pages)
Published Online: February 1, 1979
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Lee, J. (February 1, 1979). "Potential Weather Modification Caused by Waste Heat Release from Large Dry Cooling Towers." ASME. J. Heat Transfer. February 1979; 101(1): 164–168. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.3450909
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