600 MW Direct Air-Cooling Unit Back-Pressure Optimization and Theoretical Analysis

Abstract

In recent years, direct air cooling units have developed rapidly in China, but in the actual operation, the back-pressure often deviate from the optimal back-pressure, which affect the economy of the unit. The paper has figured out the optimum back-pressure, fan speed and power gain with the method of equivalent enthalpy drop; the paper also worked out the exergy loss of each device before and after the optimization. Through the exergy efficiency analysis of the devices before and after the optimization, we find out that after optimization, exergy loss of the turbine reduces by 0.954MW and the net amount of the generated power increases 130.5kW, the net exergy efficiency of units improves about 0.018 percent points.