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Effect of geographical location on cooling pond requirements and performance

Title
Effect of geographical location on cooling pond requirements and performance / Vanderbilt University Department of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering [E.L.Thackston, F.L. Parker].
Author
Thackston, Edward L.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : United States Environmental Protection Agency, Water Quality Office, 1971.

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Additional Authors
  • Parker, Frank L., 1926-
  • Vanderbilt University. Department of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, author.
  • United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Water Quality Office. issuing body.
Description
xviii, 234 pages : illustrations; 28 cm
Summary
The energy budget approach to cooling ponds has been outlined and applied to cooling ponds. Monthly average weather data from 88 stations throughout the U.S. were used to calculate equilibrium temperatures, heat exchange coefficients, and amount of cooling in various sized ponds receiving the effluent from a standard power plant of 1000-mw capacity, both for average and extreme weather conditions. The data for each station is shown on a chart, and the variation of these results across the U S. is depicted by a series of 28 maps of the U.S. with contours connecting equal values of the parameters. The results may also be used to estimate cooling pond performance for other sized power plants. The maps disclose variations across the U.S., on a given date, of up to 55°F in equilibrium temperature, up to 100% difference in heat exchange coefficients, up to 50% difference in heat lost from a given sized pond, and up to 200% difference in the size of a pond necessary to produce an equal cooling effect.
Series Statement
Water pollution control research series ; 16130 FDQ 03/71.
Uniform Title
  • Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL)
  • Water pollution control research series ; 16130 FDQ 03/71.
Subject
  • Thermal pollution of rivers, lakes, etc. > United States
  • Cooling ponds > Climatic factors
  • Pollution thermique des cours d'eau, lacs, etc. > États-Unis
  • Cooling ponds > Climatic factors
  • Thermal pollution of rivers, lakes, etc
  • United States
Note
  • "16130 FDQ 03/71."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
LCCN
75614517
OCLC
  • ocm00240946
  • 240946
  • SCSB-1873271
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library