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Exergoeconomic and Environmental Modeling of Integrated Polygeneration Power Plant with Biomass-Based Syngas Supplemental Firing
Fidelis. I. Abam, Ogheneruona E. Diemuodeke, Ekwe. B. Ekwe, Mohammed Alghassab, Olusegun D. Samuel, Zafar A. Khan, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Farooq
April 4, 2023
There is a burden of adequate energy supply for meeting demand and reducing emission to avoid the average global temperature of above 2 °C of the pre-industrial era. Therefore, this study presents the exergoeconomic and environmental analysis of a proposed integrated multi-generation plant (IMP), with supplemental biomass-based syngas firing. An in-service gas turbine plant, fired by natural gas, was retrofitted with a gas turbine (GT), steam turbine (ST), organic Rankine cycle (ORC) for cooling and power production, a modified Kalina cycle (KC) for power production and cooling, and a vapour absorption system (VAB) for cooling. The overall network, energy efficiency, and exergy efficiency of the IMP were estimated at 183 MW, 61.50% and 44.22%, respectively. The specific emissions were estimated at 122.2, 0.222, and 3.0 × 10−7 kg/MWh for CO2, NOx, and CO, respectively. Similarly, the harmful fuel emission factor, and newly introduced sustainability indicators—exergo-thermal index (ETI) and exergetic utility exponent (EUE)—were obtained as 0.00067, 0.675, and 0.734, respectively. The LCC of $1.58 million was obtained, with a payback of 4 years, while the unit cost of energy was estimated at 0.0166 $/kWh. The exergoeconomic factor and the relative cost difference of the IMP were obtained as 50.37% and 162.38%, respectively. The optimum operating parameters obtained by a genetic algorithm gave the plant’s total cost rate of 125.83 $/hr and exergy efficiency of 39.50%. The proposed system had the potential to drive the current energy transition crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic shock in the energy sector.
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exergetic utility exponent, Exergy, gas turbine, multigeneration, thermo-enviroeconomic
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Abam FI, Diemuodeke OE, Ekwe EB, Alghassab M, Samuel OD, Khan ZA, Imran M, Farooq M. Exergoeconomic and Environmental Modeling of Integrated Polygeneration Power Plant with Biomass-Based Syngas Supplemental Firing. (2023). LAPSE:2023.27646v1
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Abam FI: Energy, Exergy, and Environment Research Group (EEERG), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike, Umudike 440109, Nigeria [ORCID]
Diemuodeke OE: Energy and Thermofluids Research Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Port Harcourt, PMB 5323, Choba, Port Harcourt 500102, Nigeria [ORCID]
Ekwe EB: Energy, Exergy, and Environment Research Group (EEERG), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike, Umudike 440109, Nigeria
Alghassab M: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shaqra University, Riyadh B11911, Saudi Arabia
Samuel OD: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun, P.M.B 1221, Effurun, Effurun 330102, Nigeria
Khan ZA: Department of Electrical Engineering, Mirpur University of Science and Technology, Mirpur Azad Kashmir 10250, Pakistan; Department of Mechanical, Biomedical and Design Engineering, School of Engineering and Physical Science, Aston University, Birmingham B
Imran M: Department of Mechanical, Biomedical and Design Engineering, School of Engineering and Physical Science, Aston University, Birmingham B47ET, UK [ORCID]
Farooq M: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, New Campus- KSK 54800, Pakistan [ORCID]
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Energies
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13
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22
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E6018
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2020
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2020-11-18
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1996-1073
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