Study on Recirculation of Cooling Water of Power Station Sited on a Bay

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This report concerns with the investigation of recirculation of cooling water discharged from outlet of thermal (or atomic) power stations sited on a bay under the tidal and wind effects. In this study, the author describes the effect of some dominant factors on the recirculation. A practical theory is also presented from which quantitative prediction of water temperature distribution and velocity field due to the discharge of warmed cooling water may be obtained for a bay characterized by a meteorological condition. In this paper, an iteration method (accelerated Liebmann method) using finite differences has been developed for the analysis of the water temperature distribution, the biharmonic equation governing the dynamic behaviour of discharged cooling water under the adequate boundry conditions such as the vertical density variation in the stratified sea basin, outflow velocity and temperature at the outlet, and process of cooling the sea surface. The above equations in two or three dimensional space were transformed into difference equation system, which was solved numerically with the aid of an electronic computer IBM 7090.

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