Condensation the steam by air
Keywords: water vapor, condensation , air heat exchange and metal plate
2022/2023
Abstract
The current energy crisis in the world forces people to produce large amounts of
energy from dirty, unsustainable resources like oil, which has serious negative effects
on the ecosystem. The efficiency of a power plant that generates electricity using
steam motion can go from 45% to 68% with a slight mutation. In order to boost the
overall amount of electricity generated, this adjustment must be made at each power
plant. The water vapor pump in internal reservoirs subsequently adds additional water
that is tainted with contaminants, which is the cause of the low efficiency. This makes
it difficult to clean the reservoir and restore the heat to the vaporization temperature.
The answer is to enable the steam to condense at a specific height and take advantage
of this height by creating a barrier that permits the steam to condense in. This will
allow the steam to be cooled by the surrounding air. then fall at a speed caused by
gravity that can also produce electricity in the form of water. With this modification,
it is possible to construct a power plant anywhere and reap the benefits of steam
energy twice, which will aid in resolving the global energy crisis.
Hypothesis
This plate cooling system is much better in condensation as it produces energy rather
than consuming it. As we want to replace the water pumps that are used in pumping
water to cool the steam so it uses energy with a simple plate at a height so the steam
will be cooled by the heat exchange with the air. Then the water will fall from this
height at a very large speed that makes big kinetic energy makes it able to rotate a
turbines that produces more energy.
Materials
Table (1)
How does a normal power plant work?
By burning material like oil or any other source of thermal energy the boiler that contains water increases the water temperature and converts it to steam with a big pressure then flows into a turbine
which spins a generator to create electricity then the steam is cooled in a reservoir by bumping sea water by bumps around it then it condensed to water again
How does a power plant with the mutation work?
Everything will work as normal one except the condensation process as we will replace the normal condensation system with a barrier that we will put it on a determent height to make the steam
condense on its surface and fall like a waterfall and by the gravitational force, it will fall with the speed that makes it able to rotate another turbine by the kinetic energy due to its speed (that make
electricity)and back into the cycle again.
Results
Vf=Vi+at (where Vf is the velocity that the water would rotate the turbines with, the v i is the
velocity of the water at the point of dropping, a is the gravitational acceleration and t is the
time of the freefall)
by the velocity that calculated previously we can calculate the energy generated by the
relation KE= 0.5mv2 (where the KE is the energy of the water drops, the m is the mass of
them and the v2 is the velocity calculated from the previous relation)
the calculated energy here is the second energy (the new energy that the project adds) from
the same cycle the first energy isn’t related or affected from the project so it doesn’t matter
how to calculate it but in the calculation of the total energy that the mutation adds to the
power plant we must consider the saving of the energy that was consumed in pumping water
to the containers that contain the vapor in addition to the energy- producing and the saving of
energy that consumed from the pumping of water to cool the vapor but there is some vapor
that escapes from the plate to the atmosphere (out of the cycle) these water needs to be
replaced then there is some energy to reheating the new water
Represent the total amount of water
consumed by nuclear power plants after and
before applying this project
The water velocity due to the height according
to (V=√2gh) x axis represent the height and y
axis represent the velocity
Back ground research
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Data collection
The power plant developed condensation system make it able to build another turbine to
produce energy two times in one cycle. Part of the energy in the old cycle was consumed by
the pumping of water from the sea. Also, the developed cycle has other advantages that will
be discussed later. The producing of energy rather than consuming it by a small modification
will help in increase the efficiency of converting the chemical energy in the oil or coal to
electric energy. The efficiency increasing means that to produce the same amount of energy
from smaller quantity of coal or oil. That will help in solving a lot of problems like.
1.The energy crisis: because the developed system will produce more energy than usual.
2.The global warming: because we will produce the needed quantity of electricity from a
smaller quantity of the fossil fuels.
3.The climatic change : the co2 emission will decrease as discussed previously that will help
in decreasing the climatic change.
The old version: was by putting the water vapor after it rotates the turbines in a big
container. Then pumping lots of water around the container however that will consume
energy so it will decrease the efficiency of the power plant as well.
Our development: it is to build a plat with some edges to avoid seeking of the water
vapor from the plat. Also, to make the plate sloped to collect the water in one point. The
water will fall with a high speed according to the height and the law of mechanical energy
(potential energy+ kinetic energy=constant). we can get benefit from this by make some
turbines in the water collecting point to produce more energy from the same cycle.
In the test
water collected in the corner of the plate according to the slope in Y and Z axis . determining
that slope done practically by imposing some slopes and try to know which has higher speed
and lower rate of falling the water in the main container.
By using these materials we will reduce the budget of build the condensation system as this
project tend to use small amount of good conductor like saj to make the air heat exchange.
At the same time the project will produce higher amount of electric energy.
Purpose of the study
1. Double energy production from a same cycle
2. Trying to conserve fuel by producing more electric energy from it
3. Keep the components used to construct the cooling reservoir and the bump.
4. Reduce the energy used to pump water.
5. Reduce heat pollution.
6. Save money by using the steam cooling tanks' vaporized water instead of having to
clear off salt or silt.
7. Permit the construction of the power plant wherever, since it was required to be
built adjacent to water bodies.
Application
oReplace the normal condensation system that consumes energy in power plants with a
cooling plate that produces energy.
oUse this project in ElDabaa nuclear reactor as it is a desert have high wind speed.
Conclusions
We can reduce the resources needed to build the cooling portion of the steam cycle
and produce energy from the same cycle twice by installing a straightforward barrier
at a specific height (determined for each power plant). It implies that there will be a
more effective conversion of the fuel to electric energy. that denotes an increase in the
power plant's efficiency. and conserving fuel by generating more energy from a given
amount. The modification will also free the power plant from the necessity to locate it
close to water bodies, eliminate the need for routine maintenance brought on by salt
buildup, and reduce environmental thermal water pollution.
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