Accession Number:

ADA010432

Title:

An Analytical Method for Determining Heat Transfer from Power Plant Coolant in the Florida 'Boulder Zone'.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.,

Corporate Author:

ARMY FACILITIES ENGINEERING SUPPORT AGENCY FORT BELVOIR VA RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY DIV

Personal Author(s):

• Greenberg,Marcus
• Van den Berg,Alan J.

Report Date:

1974-07-01

Pagination or Media Count:

43.0

Abstract:

An analytical solution to the heat transfer problem of dissipating the heat from 83F power plant coolant to 60F rock and sea water. The problem considers the concept of injecting the coolant into the Boulder Zone, the cavernous geological strata underlying all of South Florida, allowing a fresh water bubble to form, and cool for 30 days, before being recirculated back to the plant. The solution revealed that the average temperature of the bubble would be 68.3F with approximately 37 of the total water discharged at 61F and 17 at 83F. The remaining water, or approximately 46 would be a mixture at about 73.5F.

Descriptors:

• *HEAT TRANSFER
• *ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS
• *THERMAL POLLUTION
• NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
• COOLING
• ROCK
• STRATIGRAPHY
• FRESH WATER
• THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY
• SEA WATER
• FLORIDA
• HEAT SINKS
• WATER WELLS
• DOLOMITE

Subject Categories:

• Water Pollution and Control

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE