Journal
ENERGY
Volume 84, Issue -, Pages 612-622Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2015.03.023
Keywords
Optimization; Steam Rankine cycle; Regenerative preheating; Heat integration; Oxy-combustion
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- BIGCCS Centre
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The integration of process heat with regenerative steam Rankine cycles by preheating the boiler feedwater increases power generation from the steam turbines. In oxy-combustion coal based power plants, considerable compression heat from the air separation unit is available for such heat integration, however, there are at least two challenges: (1) how to integrate a heat stream with the steam cycle, and (2) how to optimize the compression scheme, accounting for the trade-off between compression work requirement and the turbine power output. This paper investigates the optimal integration of the air compression train in a cryogenic air separation unit with the regenerative steam cycle in an oxycombustion coal based power plant using MINLP (mixed Integer non-linear programming) Two special cases (adiabatic compression and isothermal compression) are also investigated to compare with the optimization results. The study shows that such heat integration increases the thermal efficiency of the reference power plant by a maximum of 0.5-0.6% points. The heat integration is less attractive when the temperature difference of the heat transfer between the compressed gas and the boiler feedwater is larger than 40 degrees C. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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