Publication detail

Conceptual Design Method for Energy Retrofit of Waste Gas-to-Energy Units

FREISLEBEN, V. JEGLA, Z.

Original Title

Conceptual Design Method for Energy Retrofit of Waste Gas-to-Energy Units

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

Many industrial waste gasses, especially from chemical and petrochemical processes, contain combustible substances enabling their utilization as a promising energy source. Thermal oxidation represents a suitable and proven technology, which is, however, very energy intensive in terms of external fuel demand dependent on exhaust heat recovery efficiency. This paper presents a systematic method developed for the Energy Retrofit of industrial units for thermal oxidation of waste gasses (waste gas-to-energy units) in order to improve the units´ waste heat recovery and thus to reduce the external energy demand. Thisresults in the reduction of operational costs and emissions and improves waste gas energy utilization.The method procedure is further applied to Energy Retrofit of a specific waste gas to energy unit, where the fuel saving of over 30% was achieved by the proposed conceptual modifications with a payback period of only 5.5 months. Finally, the developed method accuracy was successfully verified by the comparison with results of non-linear simulation.

Keywords

Thermal oxidation; Shifting Flue Gas Line method; waste gas-to-energy unit; Energy Retrofit; fuel saving; VOC; CO

Authors

FREISLEBEN, V.; JEGLA, Z.

Released

1. 6. 2022

Publisher

SDEWES Centre

ISBN

1848-9257

Periodical

Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems

Year of study

10

Number

2

State

Republic of Croatia

Pages from

1

Pages to

19

Pages count

19

URL

https://www.sdewes.org/jsdewes/pid9.0396

Full text in the Digital Library

http://hdl.handle.net/11012/203901

BibTex

@article{BUT175273,
  author="Vít {Freisleben} and Zdeněk {Jegla}",
  title="Conceptual Design Method for Energy Retrofit of Waste Gas-to-Energy Units",
  journal="Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems",
  year="2022",
  volume="10",
  number="2",
  pages="1--19",
  doi="10.13044/j.sdewes.d9.0396",
  issn="1848-9257",
  url="https://www.sdewes.org/jsdewes/pid9.0396"
}