Open AccessEnergy Saving Application of Variable Speed Auxiliary Pump Plus Hydro Turbine in Circulating Cooling Water System
Author(s) -
Peng Wang,
Xingqi Luo,
Senlin Chen,
Qingsen Cai,
Liting Jiang
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/2029/1/012070
Subject(s) - turbine , water cooling , heat exchanger , water flow , power (physics) , process engineering , environmental science , engineering , mechanical engineering , environmental engineering , thermodynamics , physics
The circulating cooling water system (CCWS) is a common industrial auxiliary system, and water pumps need to consume much energy to transport cooling water to distributed heat exchangers. Previous studies show that a pump network configuration with constant speed auxiliary pump plus hydro turbine (CSAP-T) plays a significant role in energy conservation. However, given the fluctuations in the production load and cooling water supply temperature, the flow demand of heat exchangers for cooling water varies. Under different working conditions, the CSAP-T scheme cannot supply the minimum cooling water flow required by all heat exchangers at the same time, thereby wasting energy. Therefore, this paper proposes a new fluid machinery network configuration called variable speed auxiliary pump plus hydro turbine (VSAP-T) and establishes a mathematical model of the total output power of the fluid machinery network in CCWS to minimize network energy consumption. To illustrate the effectiveness of the VSAP-T scheme, a real system is used as the research object, and both CSAP-T and VSAP-T schemes are used to optimize the system. When the working conditions are changed, the total output power of the system fluid machinery network can be conserved by 30% to 50%.