Participant Travel for Workshop on Advanced Power Plant Cooling at the ASME IMECE 2012 Conference

提案：1264886PI: Garimella这个研讨会提案将汇集电厂冷却方面的专家来解决一个关键问题，即在电厂的冷凝器和冷却塔中使用清洁水。由于相当一部分水用于发电工业，对有限的清洁水供应的认识引起了对这一问题的关注。这是能源-水关系问题的一部分，最近已被带到最前沿。讲习班将包括审查当前技术的最新状况、操作条件和要求、为其他工业正在开发的有关新兴技术以及这些领域所需的进展。来自工业界和学术界的主要专家将发表这些评论。随后将在选定的主题上进行分组讨论，以讨论和确定高影响力的方向。预计本次研讨会将为冷却技术的未来工作提供路线图。在这一领域进行研究的动机是“人们越来越关注水的可用性以及冷却水消耗和提取对环境的影响。”目前的冷却技术使用的冷凝器要么利用一次通过冷却（从大海或湖泊等大型水体中提取的水），要么利用冷却塔，要么利用空气冷却来冷凝从涡轮机排出的蒸汽。讲习班将有助于确定在能源生产中减少用水量的技术和挑战。

Proposal: 1264886PI: Garimella This workshop proposal will bring together experts in power plant cooling to address a critical issue, that of using clean water in condensers and cooling towers in power plants. The awareness of limited clean water supply has raised focus on this issue since a significant fraction of the water is used in power generation industry. This is part of the Energy-Water nexus issue that has been brought to the forefront recently. The workshop will include a review of the state of the art in current technology, operating conditions and requirements, related emerging technologies being developed for other industries, and the advances needed in these areas. Leading experts from industry and academia will present these reviews. This will be followed by breakout sessions in selected topics to discuss and identify high impact directions. It is anticipated that a roadmap for future work in cooling technology will come from this workshop. A motivation for pursuing research in this area is "the increased concern regarding the availability of water and the impact of the cooling water consumption and withdrawal on the environment." The current cooling technology uses condensers that utilize either once-through cooling (where water extracted from a large body such as the sea or lake is used), or cooling towers, or air-cooling to condense the steam discharge from the turbine. The workshop will help identify technologies and challenges towards reducing water consumption in energy generation.