A preliminary feasibility study of the implementation of various absorption heat pump configurations in a Kraft pulping process has been performed. Three different cases were considered: (i) integration of a double lift heat transformer into the heat recovery circuit of the wood chips digesters...

A novel methodology for Optimal Sizing of Biomass-Fired Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) Combined Heat and Power (CHP) System with Heat Storage is presented in this paper. The ORC technology received a lot of attention recently, especially for medium scale applications (e.g. district heating) where...

In the past few years a special attention has been paid to the use of renewable energy, but some negative features of these sources (low power density and unpredictable availability) bring about remarkable difficulties of economic payback. For this reason, in many countries incentives are...