Condition Assessment of Induced Draught Cooling Towers Located In Different Climatic Regions of India

• Published in: IOP conference series. Earth and environmental science Vol. 796; no. 1; pp. 12029 - 12035
• Main Authors: Anwar, Rizwan, Reddy, T V G, Mundra, Sanjay, Ojha, P N, Singh, Brijesh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.06.2021
• Subjects: Aging; Carbonation; Chloride; Chlorides; Concrete construction; Condition assessment; Cooling; Cooling towers; Cooling water; Drying; Durability; Non Destructive Evaluation; Nondestructive testing; Power plants; Thermal power; Thermal power plants; Water circulation; Wetting; India

Abstract Induced Draft Cooling Towers (IDCT) are an important industrial structures, which removes the heat absorbed in the circulating cooling water systems of thermal power plants. The cooling tower in general comprises of RCC members’ viz. Column, Beam, Slab, Wall, Louvers, Fanstack Shell etc. Th...