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Piping & plant systems
The cloud that is not smoke
Cooling tower plume of a combined-cycle plant
- Duration
- 1:06
- Year
- 2026
The case
What leaves a cooling tower is water, not smoke. A combined-cycle plant circulates 34,200 m³/h to condense the steam leaving the turbine; about 0.94 % of it, 322 t/h on this cold morning, goes to the air as vapour. In the model the visible cloud stands 167 m above the tower and is gone by mid-morning.
Topics
- Thermal systems
- Cooling towers
- Plume model
Basis. Generic synthetic case built for this piece. No client data. Not a design verification.
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