IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jeners/v15y2022i20p7525-d940514.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Application of Exergy Analysis in Flue Gas Condensation Waste Heat Recovery System Evaluation

Author

Listed:
  • Le Zhang

    (Petroleum Exploration and Production Research Institute, SINOPEC, Beijing 102206, China)

  • Huixing Zhai

    (Beijing Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Energy and Buildings, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China)

  • Jiayuan He

    (Petroleum Exploration and Production Research Institute, SINOPEC, Beijing 102206, China)

  • Fan Yang

    (Beijing Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Energy and Buildings, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China
    Beijing Gas Consumer Service Co., Ltd., Beijing 100101, China)

  • Suilin Wang

    (Beijing Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Energy and Buildings, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China)

Abstract

Flue gas condensation heat recovery technology has a good technical and economic performance in industrial exhaust gas waste heat recovery. Thermal efficiency analysis is the traditional analysis method for the flue gas condensation heat recovery system but it cannot reflect the recovered heat degree. Exergy analysis, which can reflect the recovered energy heat degree, was first applied to the evaluation of a flue gas condensation waste heat recovery system in this paper. The calculation method of wet flue gas exergy is more complex as both a heat and mass transfer is presented. Flue gas waste heat exergy efficiency (EE) and the flue gas waste heat exergy utilization rate (EUR) were proposed as the evaluation indexes for exergy analysis. The exergy analysis method was applied to the comparative evaluation of three recovery schemes in a practical project. The results show that when the water vapor content of wet flue gas is less than 10%, the condensed water exergy can be neglected when calculating EE. The EUR could be used as a comprehensive index for comparing different waste heat recovery schemes, and EE could be used to judge whether the energy grade of heat exchange equipment was seriously decreased. Exergy analysis could effectively make up for the deficiency of thermal efficiency analysis that could not reflect the waste heat grade utilization. Exergy analysis and thermal efficiency analysis are recommended to be used simultaneously to make a more comprehensive analysis and evaluation of the system.

Suggested Citation

  • Le Zhang & Huixing Zhai & Jiayuan He & Fan Yang & Suilin Wang, 2022. "Application of Exergy Analysis in Flue Gas Condensation Waste Heat Recovery System Evaluation," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(20), pages 1-12, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:15:y:2022:i:20:p:7525-:d:940514
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/20/7525/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/20/7525/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Camilo Andrés Guerrero-Martin & Juan Sebastián Fernández-Ramírez & Jaime Eduardo Arturo-Calvache & Harvey Andrés Milquez-Sanabria & Fernando Antonio da Silva Fernandes & Vando José Costa Gomes & Wanes, 2023. "Exergy Load Distribution Analysis Applied to the Dehydration of Ethanol by Extractive Distillation," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(8), pages 1-14, April.
    2. Janis Kramens & Oskars Svedovs & Amanda Sturmane & Edgars Vigants & Vladimirs Kirsanovs & Dagnija Blumberga, 2024. "Exploring Energy Security and Independence for Small Energy Users: A Latvian Case Study on Unleashing Stirling Engine Potential," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(3), pages 1-27, January.
    3. Hyeonrok Choi & Won Yang & Yongwoon Lee & Changkook Ryu, 2024. "Characteristics of SO 2 Removal and Heat Recovery of Flue Gas Based on a Hybrid Flue Gas Condenser," Energies, MDPI, vol. 17(19), pages 1-12, September.
    4. Mahmoud Khaled & Mostafa Mortada & Jalal Faraj & Khaled Chahine & Thierry Lemenand & Haitham S. Ramadan, 2022. "Effect of Airflow Non-Uniformities on the Thermal Performance of Water–Air Heat Exchangers—Experimental Study and Analysis," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(21), pages 1-14, October.
    5. Runchen Wang & Xiaonan Du & Yuetao Shi & Yuhao Wang & Fengzhong Sun, 2023. "An Ejector and Flashbox-Integrated Approach to Flue Gas Waste Heat Recovery: A Novel Systematic Study," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(22), pages 1-21, November.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:15:y:2022:i:20:p:7525-:d:940514. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.