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Grant Award View - GA28553-V2
Artificial tornados enhance updraft in natural draft cooling towers
GA ID:
GA28553-V2
Agency:
Australian Research Council
Approval Date:
27-Nov-2018
Variation Publish Date:
31-Jul-2019
Variation Date:
26-Sep-2019
Category:
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Research
Grant Term:
26-Sep-2019 to 25-Sep-2022
Value (AUD):
$396,000.00
(GST inclusive where applicable)
Varies:
GA28553
- Artificial tornados enhance updraft in natural draft cooling towers
One-off/Ad hoc:
No
Aggregate Grant Award:
No
PBS Program Name:
ARC 18/19 Discovery
Grant Program:
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Grant Activity:
Artificial tornados enhance updraft in natural draft cooling towers
Purpose:
This project aims to investigate and develop a novel air flow enhancement concept, induced plume swirl, and its engineering approaches to boost the cooling capacity of natural draft cooling towers (NDCTs). These towers are widely used in thermal power plants due to their low operating costs. The project will explore why and how the artificial natural convective air swirls (vortices) significantly increase the updraft inside NDCTs and identify effective, low-energy cost swirl inducement methods to increase the efficiency of operation. A wide application of this technology will result in economic and environmental benefits, including increases in overall energy conversion efficiencies, cuts in operational costs in the order of billions, and reductions in carbon emissions in the thermal power sector.
GO ID:
GO Title:
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award commencing in 2019
Internal Reference ID:
DE19 Round 1
Selection Process:
Targeted or Restricted Competitive
Confidentiality - Contract:
No
Confidentiality - Outputs:
No
Grant Recipient Details
Recipient Name:
The University of Queensland
Recipient ABN:
63 942 912 684
Grant Recipient Location
Suburb:
ST LUCIA
Town/City:
ST LUCIA
Postcode:
4067
State/Territory:
QLD
Country:
AUSTRALIA
Grant Delivery Location
State/Territory:
QLD
Postcode:
4067
Country:
AUSTRALIA