Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE190101253

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE190101253

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Artificial tornados enhance updraft in natural draft cooling towers. This project aims to investigate and develop a novel air flow enhancement concept, induced plume swirl, and its engineering approaches to boost the cooling capacity of natural draft cooling towers (NDCTs). These towers are widely used in thermal power plants due to their low operating costs. The project will explore why and how the artificial natural convective air swirls (vortices) significantly increase the updraft inside NDCTs and identify effective, low-energy cost swirl inducement methods to increase the efficiency of operation. A wide application of this technology will result in economic and environmental benefits, including increases in overall energy conversion efficiencies, cuts in operational costs in the order of billions, and reductions in carbon emissions in the thermal power sector.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 26-09-2019

End Date: 31-12-2022

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $396,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Power and Energy Systems Engineering (excl. Renewable Power) | Mechanical Engineering | Fluidisation and Fluid Mechanics | Numerical Modelling and Mechanical Characterisation

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Industrial Energy Conservation and Efficiency |

Other Keywords

Fluidisation and Fluid Mechanics | Industrial Energy Conservation and Efficiency | Mechanical Engineering | Numerical Modelling and Mechanical Characterisation | Power and Energy Systems Engineering (excl. Renewable Power)

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