Exergy analysis and optimisation of waste heat recovery systems for cement plants
- 10 May 2016
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in International Journal of Sustainable Energy
- Vol. 37 (2), 115-133
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14786451.2016.1181067
Abstract
In the last decades, heat recovery systems have received much attention due to the increase in fuel cost and the increase in environmental issues. In this study, different heat recovery systems for a cement plant are compared in terms of electricity generation and exergy analysis. The heat sources are available in high temperature (HT) and low temperature (LT). For the HT section a dual pressure Rankine cycle, a simple dual pressure Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) and a regenerative dual pressure ORC are compared. Also, for the LT section, a simple ORC is compared with transcritical carbon dioxide cycle. To find the best system, an optimisation algorithm is applied to all proposed cycles. The results show that for the HT section, regenerative ORC has the highest exergy efficiency and has the capability of producing nearly 7 MW electricity for a cement factory with the capacity of 3400 ton per day. The main reason for this is introducing the regenerative heat exchanger to the cycle. For the LT section, ORC showed a better performance than the CO2 cycle. It is worth mentioning that the generated power in this section is far lower than that of the HT section and is equal to nearly 300 kW.This publication has 36 references indexed in Scilit:
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