ASME Energy-Water Nexus IC 

Power Plant Cooling Design and SpecificatPower Plant Cooling Design and Specificat

Carey King

Center for International Energy and Environmental Po

The University of Texas at Austin

March 22, 2012
ASME has effort underway to promote 

Water Nexus Water Nexus

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ASME Energy-Water Nexus Interdisciplinary te

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– Started in Fall 2010– ICs at ASME are meant to cross ASME ‘div– Other IC is for Nanoengineering

• Purpose of ASME EWN Purpose of ASME EWN

-IC

– Promote collaborations within ASME– Find s

pace for ASME contribution within o

organizations

• Research• Information dissemination
ASME Energy-Water Nexus IC Pla

• Chair and Vice-Chairs

– Mike Hightower (Sandia National Labs)– Michael Webber (Univ of Texas) Michael Webber (Univ. of Texas)

• Special Projects Chair

– Carey King (Univ. of Texas)

• “EWN” Track at International Mechanical 

Engineering Congress and Exposition

– 2011 (Denver): Track Chair – Carey King– 2012 (Houston): Track Chair 2012 (Houston): Track Chair

–

Shaurya Prakash (Oh

haurya Prakash (Oh

Univ.) and Wallace Leung (Poly. Univ. Hong Kong)

• ASME Staff Coordinator: Raj Manchanda

ASME Staff Coordinator: Raj Manchanda
EWN IC Mission & Vision Statements

Mission:

Expedite the development of transformative technologie

on innovative water for energy and energy for water incl

reuse, recovery, management, and increasing supply deve

for power, industrial, industrial, and domestic domestic applications applications through through 

knowledge‐sharing experiences, technical publications an

guidance, and content and community‐building opportun

Vision:Become a leading advocate of innovative technologies an

applications for power and industrial energy and water

management.
ASME EWN IC Near Term Goals

• Communicate ASME’s role as a neutral third party convener to 

body of Subject Matter Experts to engage the technical commu

it t n erest to create awareness, and d l eve op and d l ep oy ed ti 

ucatio

and services in the areas of power, energy, and industrial energ

use, reuse, and management

• Facilitate content portfolio development to meet the knowledg

needs of the engineering community across all career stages in 

– Defining water issues and opportunities for power, energy, and in– Innovative water use, reuse, and treatment including conservatio

other sectors

– Transformative technology development
ASME Power Plant Design & Specif

G id t u e concep

t

“What roles do water-related constraint

(environmental, regulatory, physical, social) 

determining broad power plant cooling 

designs/specifications from the perspective designs/specifications from the perspective 

power plant owner/operator?”

That is to say, given a set of constraints (environmental, regulatory/legal, economic, etlocal context, what are the most probable/likelcooling system designs and what choices havcooling system designs and what choices hav

in the past?
ASME Power Plant Desig p n & S ecif

Guide concept

The design GUIDE is envisioned envisioned to have

a m

technical and non

‐technical information

 Technical: Technical: cooling cooling system designs, designs, include include char

equations

 Non

‐technical: economic and environmental dr

ch i ang ng

t

h

e way water is consume

d or

wi hd t r

into and discharged from power plants
Contributors to ASME “GUIDE

• Editor: Carey King (Univ. of Texas)• Verbally-committed contributors 

– 15 total (to date) 15 total (to date)

• 3 U.S. Federal Government•

5 U S cade c U.S. Academi

c

• 4 Industry• 2 NGO/Environmental• 1 ASME Staff (survey info)
Power Plant Coolin

g Guide Time

• March 2012: Confirm authors• August 2012: First draft contributions due• November 2012: Compiled first draft (ASME 

2012 meeting in Houston)

• February 2013: Author feedback due (per ed

comments/suggestions)

• May 2013: Authors rewrite due. This docume

sent to outside peer review.

• August 2013: Document finalized.•
Power Plant Coolin

g Guide Outl

• Introduction • Data (U.S. federal) on power plant water usag

impacts

• E i t l id ti Environmen

t

al considerations

• Cooling system type descriptions and design• Use of non Use of non

-fresh water resources fresh water resources

• Waste heat recovery and/or combined heat a

power and combined cycle plants

• Economic considerations and drivers• Case Studies 
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Carey King

careyking@mail.utexas.edu

http://www.jsg.utexas.edu/cieep