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A model is developed for an existing organic Rankine cycle (ORC) utilizing a low-temperature geothermal brine including the performance characteristics of the components. The model is validated with a set of 7200 operation data collected in one-year. The operation of the ORC is optimized...
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Drought poses important risks to thermoelectric power production in the United States because of the significant water use in this sector. Here a scoping level analysis is performed to identify the technical tradeoffs and initial cost estimates for retrofitting existing thermoelectric generation...
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find retrofit changes to an existing network that can improve energy performance, in practice such changes are most often … uneconomic. This paper will present an approach to heat exchanger network retrofit around a fixed network structure. Network …, allow much more cost-effective heat exchanger network retrofit. …
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that how these buildings perform and whether there are retrofit opportunities to further reduce their energy use. This is a …, a suite of analytics were proposed to analyze energy use and to identify retrofit measures for high performance … California to analyze its energy use and identify retrofit opportunities, including: (1) analyzing patterns of major energy end …
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Industrial experiments were performed for a retrofitted 660-MWe full-scale arch-fired boiler. The ignition position of the primary air/fuel mixture flow, furnace temperature and flue gas component after the air heater were measured with different anthracite ratios at loads of 660- and 380-MWe....
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retrofit and fuel switching. However, it involves potentially time consuming manual procedures and the quality of solutions … emissions reduction targeting via fuel switching and HEN retrofit. A sequential model execution was proposed along with the …
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Heat Pinch Analysis retrofit projects are typically performed by evaluating and maximising the heat recovery potentials … Site (TS) Heat Integration analysis is performed. Such approach may steer designers away from the promising retrofit … opportunities and to lead towards suboptimal heat exchanger networks (HEN). This paper presents an effective retrofit framework for …
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The demand of freshwater has surpassed the renewable limit and new water sources are associated with an intensive use of energy. Coincidence between scarcity of water and availability of solar radiation makes solar energy the most suitable option to mitigate the water deficit. This paper...
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Evaluating the energy and emissions efficiency, measuring the energy saving and emissions reduction potential, and estimating the carbon price in China at the regional level are considered a crucial way to identify the regional efficiency levels and efficiency promotion potentials, as well as to...
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The utilization of low grade heat in process industries has significant potential for improving site-wide energy efficiency. This paper focuses on the techno-economic analysis of key technologies for energy recovery and re-use, namely: Organic Rankine Cycles (ORC), boiler feed water heating,...
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