Abstract
Three heat recovery cycles are studied to recover the waste heat from the exhaust gas outlet of a glass-melting furnace. To determine the viability and potential dangers based on techno-economic aspects, three fundamental recovery cycles for the exhaust gas from UK glass melting furnaces are examined. The parametric thermodynamic and techno-economic study reveals the effects of the key parameters: The condenser temperature of the ORC cycle, the pressure ratio of the sCO2 cycle, and the flash pressure of the Kalina cycle. Three thermodynamic parameters (Power production, energy, and exergy efficiency), as well as five techno-economic parameters (LCOE, NPV, PP, IRR, and MOIC), have been studied with varying key factors. The results showed that ORC is the best possible option for low-temperature waste exhaust gases as it is not as expensive as other ones, while super-critical CO2 has the highest power production to produce power from high-temperature waste heat sources. Even though ORC’s payback period is 10% longer than sCO2‘s, Comparing the IRR, NPV, and MOIC of the ORC cycle to those of the sCO2 cycle, the differences are just 8.3%, 5.3%, and 8.2% lower.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1384-1400 |
Journal | International Journal of Green Energy |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 12 |
Early online date | 9 Apr 2023 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.Funding: This work was supported by Innovate UK under Grant 10018130.
Keywords
- Economic efficiency
- Glass sector
- Waste heat recovery