20-03: AEP/Buckeye Power Cardinal Unit 3 Natural Draft Cooling Tower Shell FGD Discharge Analysis Method

20-03: AEP/Buckeye Power Cardinal Unit 3 Natural Draft Cooling Tower Shell FGD Discharge Analysis MethodThe first installation of routing the discharge from a wet flue gas desulphurization(FGD) system into a natural draft cooling tower shell in the Western Hemispherewas completed at the 620 MW supercritical coal fired Unit 3 at AEP BuckeyePowers Cardinal Plant in Brilliant, Ohio in 2011. The cooling tower was alsoconverted at the time from a crossflow to a counterflow configuration with afiberglass fill support structure (FRP). This paper will describe

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Subjects covered include: proper use of historical operating and performance data

traveling water screens systems used in place of stationary water screens give plants the ability to more efficiently and safely remove debris

The solution to this problem was to build a new plume abated cooling tower at the site

Even though evaporative condensers have been widely used for decades

disease control

describe their similarities and differences

Complying with increasingly stringent water discharge limitations has forced a re-examination of current cooling water treatment practices

mechanism and pitting inhibition are covered in some detail

This paper details application procedures that use chlorine dioxide to greatly reduce biofouling without affecting the phenol destruction capabilities

thereby significantly reducing the efficiency of the cooling tower

Both the fouling and thermal performance of the fills are measured as fouling occurs over time