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A study on the heat pump system for removing white plume of cooling tower and recovering water vapor. 

Number: No 227

Author(s) : ROH C., LEE G., LEE B., WANG E. S., BAIK Y. J., SHIN H.

Summary

A study on the system applying a heat pump technology to remove the white plume from a cooling tower and recover the water vapor is carried out. The proposed system firstly cools the discharged humid air stream (38 ℃, RH 95%) from a cooling tower by using a cool outside air and secondly cools the humid air stream by the evaporator of the heat pump system to recover water vapor. The recovered water is re-supplied to the cooling tower’s water basin. The thermal energy absorbed in the evaporator is released to the condenser of the heat pump system. The condenser is located at the final stage of the cooling tower to heat the air stream discharging into the atmosphere. The final discharging air stream is cooled by the cold outside air as soon as it is released, but the probability of white plume generation is significantly low, owing to the thermal buffer which is provided by the condenser of the heat pump.

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  • Original title: A study on the heat pump system for removing white plume of cooling tower and recovering water vapor. 
  • Record ID : 30030047
  • Languages: English
  • Subject: Technology
  • Source: 13th IEA Heat Pump Conference 2021: Heat Pumps – Mission for the Green World. Conference proceedings [full papers]
  • Publication date: 2021/08/31

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