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COMPARISON OF MODEL PREDICTIONS AND CONSUMPTIVE WATER USE OF CLOSED CYCLE COOLING SYSTEMS
Citation:
Strauss, J. COMPARISON OF MODEL PREDICTIONS AND CONSUMPTIVE WATER USE OF CLOSED CYCLE COOLING SYSTEMS. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/7-78/206.
Description:
The report gives results of a comparison of field-data-derived water evaporation rates with predictive model values for cooling towers and cooling ponds at steam-electric generating plants. The Leung Moore cooling tower model and five cooling pond models (Harbeck and Marciano; Harbeck; Harbeck, Koberg, and Hughes; Meyer; and Brady et al.) were used in the study. Plant data from 13 utilities (16 cooling tower systems and 7 cooling ponds) and for 5 water resource regions were utilized. For the water resource regions included in the study, ponds generally exhibited higher consumptive water use than towers.