Numerical Study on V Shaped Natural Draft Cooling Tower Supporting System

Cooling towers generally used to extract waste heat to the atmosphere from cooling water stream to a lower temperature and hence it rejects heat from water. The size of the cooling tower is large, with thin wall and complex geometry. Wind load plays a dominant role in the design of cooling tower. These cooling towers are subjected to self-weight and dynamic loads such as wind and earthquake. This paper presents the study of cooling tower of height 200m above the ground level. The Analysis of a cooling tower is done for a wind load using a finite element analysis considering V frame shell base supporting system. The analysis is performed in Commercial software STAAD PRO and the results obtained are presented in this paper.