SHEN Xu, WANG Jian-hua, LI Hai-hong, XIAO Wei-hua

State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin, Beijing 100038, China

Abstract: The thermal power plant is a major water user of industrial water in China. For the sake of national industrial water saving, a new methodology of water-use efficiency assessment for the thermal power plant is proposed on the consideration of the limitations of the existing indicators. The new methodology, which has a physical mechanism, is based on the basic physical and chemical properties of water and the analysis of water ’ s function in the production processes of thermal power plants. The proposed methodology is applied to a case study, which shows the new methodology has a promising application.

Key words: water’s function, thermal power plant, water-use efficiency, methodology of assessment

Published in: Journal of China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (Vol. 11 No. 1, 2013)