Wind can have deleterious effects on air-cooled condensers of utility scale including both degradation of thermal performance and physical damage to fans and fan blades. Approaches to mitigation of wind effects include wind screens and wind barriers. This study seeks to develop general guidelines for the arrangement of wind screens and estimates of their effectiveness through field testing of a full-scale utility air-cooled condenser (ACC) coupled with physical (wind tunnel) and computational (CFD) modeling of the field conditions. A description of the scope and methodology of the study and preliminary example results are presented.
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