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Analysis of Impact on the Circulating Water System due to an Installation of Helical Current Turbine at the Discharge Channel of the Power Plant  

Kim, Ji-Young (Korea Electric Power Research Institute)
Kang, Keum-Seok (Korea Electric Power Research Institute)
Ryu, Moo-Sung (Korea Electric Power Research Institute)
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Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers / v.22, no.2, 2010 , pp. 67-72 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, the impact on the circulating water system has been analyzed due to an installation of helical turbine to develop hydro-kinetic energy at the discharge channel of the power plant. Numerical simulations of velocity and pressure variations have been performed when one set of $3.6\;m\;{\times}\;1.5\;m$ sized helical turbine is installed at the outlet of discharge culvert. In case of mean sea level, change of downstream water surface elevation does not affect upstream elevation of the weir because its propagation is blocked by the seal well weir. However in case of highest high water level, change of downstream elevation affects upstream elevation because flow pattern in discharge culvert becomes the full pipe flow with submerged weir. Although an unstable pressure change occurs in upstream of the weir during the intial 10 minutes after beginning of the discharge, it becomes stable after that time. In addition, a rise of water surface elevation by 0.2 m is observed but it is concluded that it hardly affects the safety of circulating water pump (CWP) although its required power is increased more or less. Therefore, the increase of required power of CWP needs to be considered for evaluation of the helical turbine applicability.
Keywords
discharge channel of power plant; helical current turbine; circulating cooling water system; velocity variation;
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