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

提案：1264886 PI：Garimella 该研讨会提案将汇集发电厂冷却方面的专家，以解决一个关键问题，即在发电厂的冷凝器和冷却塔中使用清洁水。有限的清洁水供应的意识已经引起了人们对这个问题的关注，因为很大一部分水用于发电行业。这是最近被带到前台的能源-水关系问题的一部分。 讲习班将包括审查当前技术的最新水平、操作条件和要求、正在为其他行业开发的相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介绍这些评论。随后将在选定的主题中举行分组会议，以讨论和确定高影响力方向。预计这次研讨会将为未来的冷却技术工作制定路线图。在这一领域进行研究的动机是“对水的可用性以及冷却水消耗和抽取对环境的影响的日益关注。“目前的冷却技术使用冷凝器，利用直流冷却（使用从海洋或湖泊等大型水体中提取的水），或冷却塔，或空气冷却来冷凝从涡轮机排出的蒸汽。研讨会将帮助确定减少能源生产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.