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Opportunities and Challenges in the Development of Modern Integrated Equipment for Waste-to-Energy Units

JEGLA, Z. TUREK, V. LÉTAL, T. ŠIKULA, J. KORČEK, L. GABRIEL, P. HORSÁK, J.

Originální název

Opportunities and Challenges in the Development of Modern Integrated Equipment for Waste-to-Energy Units

Typ

abstrakt

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

The current trend in waste-to energy (WtE) units for thermal treatment of solid, liquid and or gaseous wastes is to design and involve modern integrated equipment (MIE), the general principle of which is that they are characterized by maximum efficiency and multifunctionality (i.e. multiple unit operations are aggregated into a single apparatus). This reduces the whole WtE technology to the minimum number of present apparatuses, thus reducing both investment and operating costs. Moreover, such technology as a whole works more efficiently and is also more environmentally friendly. We are researching MIE for WtE processes within the research project “Strategic Partnership for Environmental Technologies and Energy Production”. The aim of this paper is to present the results of our research, especially the specific opportunities and challenges that the development of MIE for WtE units brings. Since the most common type of industrial WtE unit is a unit for thermal processing of some kind of waste gas (WG) containing combustible substances – shortly “waste gas-to-energy” (WGtE) unit - the paper is specifically focused on opportunities and challenges in the development of MIE for WGtE units. Typical WGtE unit consists of a quite small number of process equipment and the specific configuration of the WGtE unit will depend on the kind and amount of WG disposed. Depending on these two parameters, several progressive concepts of MIE can be identified, some of which have already been successfully implemented industrially. These MIE implementation opportunities will be specifically presented in the paper. However, designing MIE for WGtE units also entails several challenges that need to be addressed at present. These include, for example, the lack of reliable computational methods for designing some realizable multifunctional equipment, problems with nonuniform fluids flow distribution, heat transfer and mechanical stress within the integrated equipment, the risk of leakage of operating fluids (fugitive emissions) at various joints, etc. Attention in the paper will also be paid to these challenges and possible ways of addressing them.

Klíčová slova

Integrated Equipment; Waste-to-Energy Units; Thermal Treatment of Wastes; Fluid Flow; Heat Transfer

Autoři

JEGLA, Z.; TUREK, V.; LÉTAL, T.; ŠIKULA, J.; KORČEK, L.; GABRIEL, P.; HORSÁK, J.

Vydáno

26. 8. 2020

ISSN

2653-8911

Periodikum

Book of Abstracts of the Energy, Sustainability and Climate Change Conference

Ročník

7

Číslo

1

Stát

Řecká republika

Strany od

6

Strany do

7

Strany počet

2

BibTex

@misc{BUT165587,
  author="Zdeněk {Jegla} and Vojtěch {Turek} and Tomáš {Létal} and Jiří {Šikula} and Lubomír {Korček} and Petr {Gabriel} and Jan {Horsák}",
  title="Opportunities and Challenges in the Development of Modern Integrated Equipment for Waste-to-Energy Units",
  year="2020",
  journal="Book of Abstracts of the Energy, Sustainability and Climate Change Conference",
  volume="7",
  number="1",
  pages="6--7",
  issn="2653-8911",
  note="abstract"
}