Hybrid cooling for coal fired power stations

缺水是澳大利亚工业面临的全国性问题。该项目将通过节水直接惠及维多利亚州的电力行业。如果新提出的混合制冷系统概念被证明在实际中是可行的，它将使澳大利亚电力行业在其效率和余热回收技术方面处于强大的竞争地位。通过使用混合冷却系统，将进入冷却塔的水温降低2摄氏度，仅在维多利亚州的电力行业，每年就可以节省1750万吨补水。同时，热泵回收的余热可以反馈到发电循环中。

Water shortage is a nation wide problem facing Australian industries. The project will directly benefit the Victorian power industry through water saving. If the new proposed hybrid cooling system concept is proved to be practically feasible, it will put the Australian power industry in a strong competitive position in terms of its efficiencies and waste heat recovery technology. Lowering the temperature of water into the cooling tower by 2 degree, by using the hybrid cooling system, it would save over 17,500,000 tons of makeup water per year for the Victorian power industry alone. At the same time, the waste heat recovered by the heat pump can be fed back to the power generation cycle.