• Dhanendra Dilip koli
• Chandrakant Pol

The Natural draft cooling towers are the hyperbolic shells of revolution in shape and are supported on closely spaced inclined columns. These towers have very small shell thickness which are exceptional structures by their utter size and sensitivity to horizontal loads. Wind loading on NDCT governs critical cases due to its much larger height. This paper deals with effect of wind on Natural draught hyperbolic cooling tower. In this paper, efficient Analysis of cooling tower is presented with V- shape configuration of Raker column. The existing cooling tower is chosen from Suratgarh Super Thermal Power Station in Rajasthan, India as case study. Finite element modelling and analysis of cooling tower shell is done in SAP2000. The loading for wind analysis is done as per IS-800 Part3 (2015).

Natural draft cooling tower, Wind Load analysis, SAP2000.

"Static wind analysis of existing natural draft cooling tower at Surathgarh, Rajasthan, India.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 6, page no.461-463, June-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1806070.pdf

"Static wind analysis of existing natural draft cooling tower at Surathgarh, Rajasthan, India.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 6, page no. pp461-463, June-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1806070.pdf