Solar-Enhanced Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers for Geothermal Power Plants

This paper focuses on the optimization of a Solar-Enhanced Natural-Draft Dry-Cooling Tower (SENDDCT), originally designed by the Queensland Geothermal Energy Centre of Excellence (QGECE), as the air-cooled condenser of a geothermal power plant. The conventional method of heat transfer augmentation t...

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Main Authors: Kamel Hooman, Xiaoxue Huang, Fangming Jiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-10-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/10/10/1676