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

建议：1264886PI：Garimella这个研讨会的建议将把发电厂冷却方面的专家聚集在一起，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。清洁水供应有限的意识引起了人们对这一问题的关注，因为很大一部分水用于发电行业。这是能源-水关系问题的一部分，该问题最近被提上了议事日程。研讨会将包括对当前技术的最新水平、操作条件和要求、为其他行业开发的相关新兴技术以及这些领域所需的进步进行审查。来自工业界和学术界的顶尖专家将介绍这些评论。随后将举行选定主题的分组会议，以讨论和确定高影响力的方向。预计冷却技术未来工作的路线图将来自该研讨会。在这一领域进行研究的一个动机是“对水的可用性以及冷却水的消耗和退出对环境的影响的日益关注”。目前的冷却技术使用的冷凝器要么是一次过冷却(使用从海洋或湖泊等大型物体中提取的水)，要么是冷却塔，或者是空气冷却，以冷凝从涡轮机排放的蒸汽。研讨会将有助于确定减少能源生产中的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.