Waste incineration and heat recovery. Plant heat-recovery units designed to defray rising fuel costs must also comply with current and anticipated environmental regulations

1982 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joann E. Ward ◽  
Andrew P. Ting
1982 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. A7-A8
Author(s):  
Ronald M. Heck

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 2752-2757
Author(s):  
Gaston Lefranc ◽  
Pedro Gomes ◽  
Wesley Calixto ◽  
Messias Faria ◽  
Priscilla Stecanella ◽  
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Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 245
Author(s):  
Andreas P. Weiß ◽  
Dominik Stümpfl ◽  
Philipp Streit ◽  
Patrick Shoemaker ◽  
Thomas Hildebrandt

The energy industry must change dramatically in order to reduce CO2-emissions and to slow down climate change. Germany, for example, decided to shut down all large nuclear (2022) and fossil thermal power plants by 2038. Power generation will then rely on fluctuating renewables such as wind power and solar. However, thermal power plants will still play a role with respect to waste incineration, biomass, exploitation of geothermal wells, concentrated solar power (CSP), power-to-heat-to-power plants (P2H2P), and of course waste heat recovery (WHR). While the multistage axial turbine has prevailed for the last hundred years in power plants of the several hundred MW class, this architecture is certainly not the appropriate solution for small-scale waste heat recovery below 1 MW or even below 100 kW. Simpler, cost-effective turbo generators are required. Therefore, the authors examine uncommon turbine architectures that are known per se but were abandoned when power plants grew due to their poor efficiency compared to the multistage axial machines. One of these concepts is the so-called Elektra turbine, a velocity compounded radial re-entry turbine. The paper describes the concept of the Elektra turbine in comparison to other turbine concepts, especially other velocity compounded turbines, such as the Curtis type. In the second part, the 1D design and 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) optimization of the 5 kW air turbine demonstrator is explained. Finally, experimentally determined efficiency characteristics of various early versions of the Elektra are presented, compared, and critically discussed regarding the originally defined design approach. The unsteady CFD calculation of the final Elektra version promised 49.4% total-to-static isentropic efficiency, whereas the experiments confirmed 44.5%.


1979 ◽  
Vol 101 (4) ◽  
pp. 260-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. K. Lombard

The equipment technology to incinerate and in turn recover energy from industrial wastes is reasonably well documented via the manufacturers of the equipment involved. The difficult question for the industrial plant manager is whether the capital investment and operating costs are economically justified. This paper will review the styles of incineration and heat recovery systems which are typically applied to industrial wastes – solids, liquids, and gases – and then assess the quantity and type of waste materials which are needed to make the cost of installing that equipment economically justified.


1985 ◽  
Vol 22 (03) ◽  
pp. 245-257
Author(s):  
Charles N. Corrado

This paper presents an alternative method of generating electrical power onboard motor ships at sea. Consisting of a waste heat recovery plant and turbogenerator supplemented by a constant-speed shaft-driven generator, the generating plant offers significant potential fuel savings. Details of the plant, together with the results of several different case studies, are presented. Each case study consists of a selected set of operating conditions for the waste heat recovery plant, an estimate of the cost of the entire plant, and a preliminary economic analysis. Although the paper emphasizes the application of the proposed plant to a low-speed diesel installation, both the plant and the method of analysis are easily adaptable to medium-speed diesel and gas turbine installations.


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