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Cooling towers on power stations - why?

Hi All


I was working on a power station in Oman last month and it was gas fired with condensing steam turbines - no evaporation.  This week I'm working on a coal fired one in Poland, which has cooling towers and evaporation.  Is it something to do with the gas or just that they have no water in Oman?


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Stephen
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    Good, some facts!

    "The plant will be equipped with Ansaldo GT26 class gas turbines, with a net generating capacity of 235MW each, and two steam turbines with a capacity of 284MW each. The project will also comprise four boilers".

    So somewhat bigger than I speculated and about 1,000 MW of waste heat to dump!

    " Ansaldo Energia will supply the main power train equipment components, including, for each power plant, four GT26 gas turbines, four heat recovery steam generators, two steam turbines and six turbo generators, to SEPCOIII (Shandong Electric Power Construction Corp) of China "

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  • 663668cff2d7e2421b3a19cc032e35f9-huge-1l-image.jpg

    [Credit: Mitsui]

    Good, some facts!

    "The plant will be equipped with Ansaldo GT26 class gas turbines, with a net generating capacity of 235MW each, and two steam turbines with a capacity of 284MW each. The project will also comprise four boilers".

    So somewhat bigger than I speculated and about 1,000 MW of waste heat to dump!

    " Ansaldo Energia will supply the main power train equipment components, including, for each power plant, four GT26 gas turbines, four heat recovery steam generators, two steam turbines and six turbo generators, to SEPCOIII (Shandong Electric Power Construction Corp) of China "

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