THE PALO VERDE WATER CYCLE MODEL (PVWCM) - DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTEGRATED MULTI-PHYSICS AND ECONOMICS MODEL FOR EFFECTIVE WATER MANAGEMENT

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作者：

Middleton, Bobby D. ^{[1
]}

Brady, Patrick V. ^{[1
]}

Brown, Jeffrey A. ^{[2
]}

Lawles, Serafina T. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Sandia Natl Labs, POB 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185 USA

[2] Arizona Publ Serv, Phoenix, AZ USA

来源：

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASME 2021 POWER CONFERENCE (POWER2021) | 2021年

关键词：

Water management; water energy nexus; system dynamics;

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中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

Water management has become critical for thermoelectric power generation in the US. Increasing demand for scarce water resources for domestic, agricultural, and industrial use affects water availability for power plants. In particular, the population in the Southwestern part of the US is growing and water resources are over-stressed. The engineering and management teams at the Palo Verde Generating Station (PV) in the Sonoran Desert have long understood this problem and began a partnership with Sandia National Laboratories in 2017 to develop a long-term water strategy for PV. As part of this program, Sandia and Palo Verde staff have developed a comprehensive software tool that models all aspects of the PV (plant cooling) water cycle. The software tool - the Palo Verde Water Cycle Model (PVWCM) - tracks water operations from influent to the plant through evaporation in one of the nine cooling towers or one of the eight evaporation ponds. The PVWCM has been developed using a process called System Dynamics. The PVWCM is developed to allow scenario comparison for various plant operating strategies.

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