Birgaitze energetikoak gizarte etxebizitzan. Portaera termikoaren analisia

472 p.

Metodologia para análise exergética-econômica de plantas a vapor para geração de eletricidade consumido resíduo de biomassa amazônica

A disponibilidade de recursos energéticos em um país impacta diretamente no seu desenvolvimento sócio-econômico. Com a elevação dos preços dos energéticos no Brasil, a eficientização do uso de energia tornar-se uma atividade estratégica para o setor industrial. Com esse intuito as avaliações energéticas empregadas nesse setor objetivam otimizar a eficiência dos seus sistemas térmicos. Essas avaliações de desempenho energético são baseadas na Primeira Lei da Termodinâmica e são capazes de identificar apenas as perdas de energia, diferente da avaliação exergética que permite qualificar essa energia perdida. Devido a essa análise de qualificação da energia ser sofisticada e demorada, tornar-se necessário desenvolver um protocolo que seja executado de forma rápida e que contemple as particularidades da Amazônia, tanto o clima quanto a sua biomassa. Para isto, este trabalho propõe e aplica uma metodologia através do emprego de análises energéticas, exergética e exergo-econômica em uma planta de potência a vapor instalada no Estado Pará e operando com ciclo Rankine. Com aplicação dessas avaliações obtêm-se as taxas de energia e de perdas de energia, as taxas de exergia, as taxas de destruição de exergia, as taxas de custo de cada produto e o custo monetário da capacidade energética produzida pela planta em R$/kWh. Com esses resultados foi possível identificar as maiores perdas energéticas da planta, quantificar o custo da destruição de exergia nos principais equipamentos e a taxa de custo dos produtos principais da planta que são energia térmica e energia elétrica. Isto permite visualizar o desempenho energético, exergético e econômico em cada equipamento da planta e indicar os processos que merecem um trabalho de desenvolvimento para melhorar a sua eficiência econômica. Além disso, o custo da capacidade energética em R$/kWh produzida pela planta a vapor foi comparado com o valor cobrado pela concessionária de energia local. Essa comparação mostrou que central geradora de energia tem um custo de energia menor do que o valor confrontado.

Projeto e montagem de um sistema compacto de cogeração: aplicação da análise exergoeconômica

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Células-combustível a etanol direto embarcadas em aeronaves: estudo de utilização e recuperação de calor residual

Pós-graduação em Engenharia Mecânica - FEG

Análise termoeconômica e eficiência ecológica de uma termoelétrica com absorção química de CO2

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Exergetic, energetic, economic and environmental evaluation of concentrated solar power plants in Libya

The PhD project addresses the potential of using concentrating solar power (CSP) plants as a viable alternative energy producing system in Libya. Exergetic, energetic, economic and environmental analyses are carried out for a particular type of CSP plants. The study, although it aims a particular type of CSP plant – 50 MW parabolic trough-CSP plant, it is sufficiently general to be applied to other configurations. The novelty of the study, in addition to modeling and analyzing the selected configuration, lies in the use of a state-of-the-art exergetic analysis combined with the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The modeling and simulation of the plant is carried out in chapter three and they are conducted into two parts, namely: power cycle and solar field. The computer model developed for the analysis of the plant is based on algebraic equations describing the power cycle and the solar field. The model was solved using the Engineering Equation Solver (EES) software; and is designed to define the properties at each state point of the plant and then, sequentially, to determine energy, efficiency and irreversibility for each component. The developed model has the potential of using in the preliminary design of CSPs and, in particular, for the configuration of the solar field based on existing commercial plants. Moreover, it has the ability of analyzing the energetic, economic and environmental feasibility of using CSPs in different regions of the world, which is illustrated for the Libyan region in this study. The overall feasibility scenario is completed through an hourly analysis on an annual basis in chapter Four. This analysis allows the comparison of different systems and, eventually, a particular selection, and it includes both the economic and energetic components using the “greenius” software. The analysis also examined the impact of project financing and incentives on the cost of energy. The main technological finding of this analysis is higher performance and lower levelized cost of electricity (LCE) for Libya as compared to Southern Europe (Spain). Therefore, Libya has the potential of becoming attractive for the establishment of CSPs in its territory and, in this way, to facilitate the target of several European initiatives that aim to import electricity generated by renewable sources from North African and Middle East countries. The analysis is presented a brief review of the current cost of energy and the potential of reducing the cost from parabolic trough- CSP plant. Exergetic and environmental life cycle assessment analyses are conducted for the selected plant in chapter Five; the objectives are 1) to assess the environmental impact and cost, in terms of exergy of the life cycle of the plant; 2) to find out the points of weakness in terms of irreversibility of the process; and 3) to verify whether solar power plants can reduce environmental impact and the cost of electricity generation by comparing them with fossil fuel plants, in particular, Natural Gas Combined Cycle (NGCC) plant and oil thermal power plant. The analysis also targets a thermoeconomic analysis using the specific exergy costing (SPECO) method to evaluate the level of the cost caused by exergy destruction. The main technological findings are that the most important contribution impact lies with the solar field, which reports a value of 79%; and the materials with the vi highest impact are: steel (47%), molten salt (25%) and synthetic oil (21%). The “Human Health” damage category presents the highest impact (69%) followed by the “Resource” damage category (24%). In addition, the highest exergy demand is linked to the steel (47%); and there is a considerable exergetic demand related to the molten salt and synthetic oil with values of 25% and 19%, respectively. Finally, in the comparison with fossil fuel power plants (NGCC and Oil), the CSP plant presents the lowest environmental impact, while the worst environmental performance is reported to the oil power plant followed by NGCC plant. The solar field presents the largest value of cost rate, where the boiler is a component with the highest cost rate among the power cycle components. The thermal storage allows the CSP plants to overcome solar irradiation transients, to respond to electricity demand independent of weather conditions, and to extend electricity production beyond the availability of daylight. Numerical analysis of the thermal transient response of a thermocline storage tank is carried out for the charging phase. The system of equations describing the numerical model is solved by using time-implicit and space-backward finite differences and which encoded within the Matlab environment. The analysis presented the following findings: the predictions agree well with the experiments for the time evolution of the thermocline region, particularly for the regions away from the top-inlet. The deviations observed in the near-region of the inlet are most likely due to the high-level of turbulence in this region due to the localized level of mixing resulting; a simple analytical model to take into consideration this increased turbulence level was developed and it leads to some improvement of the predictions; this approach requires practically no additional computational effort and it relates the effective thermal diffusivity to the mean effective velocity of the fluid at each particular height of the system. Altogether the study indicates that the selected parabolic trough-CSP plant has the edge over alternative competing technologies for locations where DNI is high and where land usage is not an issue, such as the shoreline of Libya.

Termodinâmica e o uso eficiente de recursos : análise exergética de uma biorrefinaria de cana-de-açúcar

Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Tecnologia, Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, 2015.