djsilver wrote:Jaxmadine wrote: I wouks think the draw feom the compressor would negate any gains. U would always just hook up a sprayer and use the washwr squirtwrs or something.You guys might be surprised but it can work. I work in a power plant that has a 7,000 ton A/C unit to cool the intake for two gas turbines. The electrical load for the A/C is 7MW and the turbine output gain is 30-50MW (depending on ambient conditions)
I've worked on a similar project but it's not quite a same situation. In this case, we were dealing with a large site utility system where there was enough excess chilled water capacity that the pre-cooler did not really place much of an additional load on the system.
