Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LOW-CARBON TECHNOLOGIES
Volume 16, Issue 3, Pages 956-976Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/ijlct/ctab021
Keywords
LNG production; dual mixed refrigerant; absorption refrigeration; molten carbonate fuel cell; super-critical carbon dioxide cycle; hybrid system
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- General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China [51778168]
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The study proposes a hybrid system with the use of mixed refrigerants and waste heat recovery to reduce energy consumption in the production of liquefied natural gas. The hybrid system can improve overall thermal efficiency, electrical efficiency, and fuel cell efficiency while producing significant amounts of LNG and electrical power.
The production of liquefied natural gas (LNG) is a high energy-consuming process. The study of ways to reduce energy consumption and consequently to reduce operational costs is imperative. Toward this purpose, this study proposes a hybrid system adopting a mixed refrigerant for the liquefaction of natural gas that is precooled with an ammonia/water absorption refrigeration (AR) cycle utilizing the exhaust heat of a molten carbonate fuel cell, 700 degrees C and 2.74 bar, coupled with a gas turbine and a bottoming Brayton super-critical carbon dioxide cycle. The inauguration of the ammonia/water AR cycle to the LNG process increases the cooling load of the cycle by 10%, providing a 28.3-MW cooling load duty while having a 0.45 coefficient of performance. Employing the hybrid system reduces energy consumption, attaining 85% overall thermal efficiency, 53% electrical efficiency and 35% fuel cell efficiency. The hybrid system produces 6300 kg.mol.h(-1) of LNG and 146.55 MW of electrical power. Thereafter, exergy and sensitivity analyses are implemented and, accordingly, the fuel cell had an 83% share of the exergy destruction and the whole system obtained a 95% exergy efficiency.
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