Research on Structural Selection for Ultra-large Cooling Towers
Absrract:Taking the indirect air cooling tower of a 2×660 MW thermal power plant with two machines and one tower as a case study,this study utilized the large-scale general-purpose finite element software SAP2000 to model,design,and calculate for both a hyperbolic reinforced concrete cooling tower and a straight-cylinder-cone type steel structure cooling tower.It compared the advantages,disadvantages,and cost-effectiveness of reinforced concrete cooling towers and steel structure cooling towers,providing a basis for the selection of cooling tower structures.