Artificial tornados enhance updraft in natural draft cooling towers

本项目旨在研究和发展一种新的气流增强概念——诱导羽流旋流及其工程方法，以提高自然通风冷却塔（ndct）的冷却能力。由于其运行成本低，在火力发电厂中得到了广泛的应用。该项目将探索人工自然对流空气涡旋（涡旋）为何以及如何显著增加ndct内部的上升气流，并确定有效的、低能耗的涡旋诱导方法来提高运行效率。该技术的广泛应用将带来经济和环境效益，包括提高整体能源转换效率，削减数十亿美元的运营成本，以及减少火电部门的碳排放。

This project aims to investigate and develop a novel air flow enhancement concept, induced plume swirl, and its engineering approaches to boost the cooling capacity of natural draft cooling towers (NDCTs). These towers are widely used in thermal power plants due to their low operating costs. The project will explore why and how the artificial natural convective air swirls (vortices) significantly increase the updraft inside NDCTs and identify effective, low-energy cost swirl inducement methods to increase the efficiency of operation. A wide application of this technology will result in economic and environmental benefits, including increases in overall energy conversion efficiencies, cuts in operational costs in the order of billions, and reductions in carbon emissions in the thermal power sector.