Ultimate Heat Sink Thermal Performance and Water Utilization: Measurements on Cooling and Spray Ponds.

摘要

A data acquisition research program, entitled Ultimate Heat Sink Performance Field Experiments, has been completed. The primary objective was to obtain the requisite data to characterize thermal performance and water utilization for cooling ponds and spray ponds at elevated temperatures. Such data are useful for modeling purposes; such modeling efforts were beyond the scope of the present study. Constructed water retention ponds, provided with absolute seals against seepage, have been chosen as facilities for the data collection program; the first pond was located at Raft River, Idaho, and the second at East Mesa, California. The data illustrate and describe, for both cooling ponds and spray ponds, thermal performance and water utilization as the ponds cool from an initially elevated temperature, nominally 130F. The data reflect thermal performance and water utilization for meteorological and solar influences which are representative of worst-case combinations of conditions. The data are described and discussed in the text and presented in the form of data volumes as appendices.