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Design and Optimization of an Integrated System to Recover Energy from a Gas Pressure Reduction Station

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This chapter deals with thermodynamic modeling, parametric analysis, and optimization of an integrated system to recover energy from pressure reduction station in city gate station (CGS). This chapter aims to fully cover the thermodynamic modeling of an integrated system consisting of a turbo expander, an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) and a proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer to produce and store hydrogen. The pressure of natural gas in transmission pipeline in Iran gas system is high which sometimes go beyond 7 MPa. This pressure needs to be reduced near the cities pipeline pressure to 1.7 MPa. This pressure reduction results in ample potential to recover energy to generate electricity. In the proposed integrated system in this chapter, a comprehensive parametric analysis including the effect of main parameters such as natural gas preheat temperature, the natural gas pressure inlet to turbo expander, the heater mass fuel flow rate, and high temperature of ORC on the system performance is investigated.

The results show that although the natural gas inlet pressure has a trivial effect on exergy efficiency of the ORC cycle, PEM electrolyzer, and turbo expander, it has a significant effect on turbo expander power output and hydrogen production rate. Besides, results indicate that increase in preheat temperature of natural gas from 130 to 165 °C has the favorable effect on the turbo expander power output and exergy destruction rate of ORC components. Also, it is concluded that an increase in preheat temperature leads to a decrease in hydrogen production from 15.9 to 14.8 kg/day due to decrease in ORC output electricity. In order to determine the optimum value of design parameters, an optimization method is applied. The genetic algorithm optimization results show there are acceptable values for five design parameters which guarantee the optimum performance of the novel proposed integrated system.

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Abbreviations

a:

Anode

c:

Cathode

E:

Activation energy (kJ/mole)

Ėx :

Exergy flow rate (W)

h:

Specific enthalpy (kJ/kg)

LHV:

Lower heating value (kJ/kg)

ṁ :

Mass flow rate, kg s−1

ORC:

Organic Rankine Cycle

P:

Pressure (bar)

PEM:

Polymer exchange membrane

Ẇ :

Work, (W)

ΔP :

Pressure drop, (kPa)

λ :

Number of mole of fuel to number of mole of air (−)

η :

Efficiency (−)

a:

Actual

Cond:

Condenser

Eva:

Evaporator

ex:

Exergy

f:

Fuel

is:

Isentropic

TE:

Turbo expander

Tur:

Turbine

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

    Shoaib Khanmohammadi, Kazem Atashkari & Ramin Kouhi Kamali

  2. Fuel Cell Research Lab, School of Mechatronic System Engineering, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Pouria Ahmadi

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ontario, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

    Ibrahim Dincer

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey

    C. Ozgur Colpan

  3. Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey

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Khanmohammadi, S., Ahmadi, P., Atashkari, K., Kamali, R.K. (2015). Design and Optimization of an Integrated System to Recover Energy from a Gas Pressure Reduction Station. In: Dincer, I., Colpan, C., Kizilkan, O., Ezan, M. (eds) Progress in Clean Energy, Volume 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16709-1_6

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