The extraction-condensing cogeneration system is a popular technology for heat and power integration which can be used by petrochemical process. To compare with back pressure system, extraction-condensing system has better flexibility for process control. However, the thermal efficiency of extraction- condensing system could be affected by the amount of effective heat to process. If the effective heat to process and the plant power demand were not well designed, the cogeneration system may violate government regulation of ¡§qualified cogeneration system¡¨ by MOEA, or the system economics can not meet investor¡¦s requirement. From another point of view, if the cogeneration system bias original design operating condition or it has to run under low loading, the energy efficiency will move away from the target. A 94.9 MW extraction-condensing system of a petrochemical plant was selected as an example. For the purpose of data requisition, the author established a model to predict main steam flow, extraction steam flow, and power generation load. Moreover, a set of equations for the calculation of heat rate of turbine plant was developed. Besides, a Microsoft Excel calculation sheet was programmed to compute real time plant thermal efficiency. The actual operation data was compared with computer simulation. Results show (1) To meet the regulation, the process steam shall exceed 100 t/h with rated power generation. (2) For the minimum generator load (about 20 MW), the effective heat to process must exceed 78% in order to ensure a 52% overall thermal efficiency. (3) Low load means low thermal efficiency of this system. Some energy conservation ideas of this cogeneration system were assessed. Four ideas were presented, including (1) Increase boiler feed water temperature during low evaporation load. (2) Recovering of flash steam vented from blow down tank for the heating of boiler combustion air. (3) Control of cooling tower fans speed by using frequency inverter. (4) Utilization of hydraulic coupled forced draft fan. The total benefit of these energy conservation ideas is 2,546.44 kilo-liter fuel oil equivalent.

ABSTRACT With the development of high-tech industry, the power quality has become a critical issue for the industrial customers in science park. The voltage sag and power system stability problems due to fault contingency in Taipower network has caused serious production loss. The manufacturing process platforms, which are driven by power electronics equipments may shutdown when the voltage dip exceeds 30% and it will take long time for the restoration of production. To enhance the service reliability and power quality, the new cogeneration system in Hsin Chu Science Park has been selected for case study to solve the problems of short circuit capacity and voltage sag. The short circuit analysis by both ANSI and IEC is performed to find the magnitudes of fault currents. The transient stability analysis is executed to identify the critical clearing time to support the design of protective relays for tie line tripping. The static var compensator (SVC) is also considered in the simulation to investigate the mitigation of system voltage drop due to fault contingency. It is found that the implementation of cogenerators and SVC can improve the electricity service quality for high-tech customers with proper design of industrial power systems.

This dissertation is to design the operation strategy and protective scheme of micro-grid systems with dispersed generation (DG). The industrial power system with cogeneration units and the distribution feeder with wind power generators were selected as the study micro-grids for computer simulation. The mathematical models of cogeneration units and wind generators were included in the computer simulation by considering the operation control modes of DGs. The micro-grid systems and the nearby utility networks were constructed to solve the power flows of the micro-grids with various operation scenarios of power generation and load demand. For the severe external fault contingencies, the micro-grids have to be isolated from the utility power system in time to prevent the tripping of critical loads and DGs. By considering the fault ride through capability of cogenerators and voltage tolerance curves of critical loads, the critical tripping time (CTT) of tie circuit breaker of the micro-grids was determined according to the transient stability analysis. To maintain the stable operation of the micro-grids after tie line tripping, the load shedding scheme was designed by applying the under frequency and under voltage relays to disconnect the proper amount of non-critical loads according to the governor responses of cogeneration units. For the micro-grid of distribution feeder with wind power generator, the STATCOM was used to provide adaptive reactive power compensation for the mitigation of voltage fluctuation due to the variation of wind speed and feeder loading. The STATCOM can also be applied for the support of terminal voltage of wind generator (WG) to enhance the transient response of the micro-grid. The CTT of tie circuit breaker was determined by considering the low voltage ride through (LVRT) capability and the critical fault cleaning time of WG. To achieve more effective islanding operation of the micro-grids, the artificial neural network (ANN) was applied to determine the proper timing for tie line tripping and the proper amount of load shedding by using the wind speed, feeder loading and the voltage of micro-grid system as the input of ANN. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed tie line tripping and load shedding scheme, different fault contingencies of the external utility network have been simulated by using the computer program for the transient stability analysis. It is found that the critical and voltage sensitive loads of the micro-grid can be maintained when the tie circuit breaker is activated to isolate the external fault in time and followed by the execution of load shedding scheme.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:56:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5317.pdf: 4354756 bytes, checksum: c3428f42cdc8f5cda6298342a6938dab (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-06-19 / In light of the scientific evidence for global warming, the United Nations established the Framework Convention on Climate Change and defined the Kyoto Protocol that provided opportunities for sustainable social and economic development. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is one of the protocols applicable to developing countries such as Brazil. Opportunities for industries to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can be led by thermal energy integration studies. In addition, sustainable processes can result in energy savings as well as help to mitigate GHG emissions. This work presents a study of heat exchanger network (HEN) synthesis in order to reduce energy consumption and GHG emissions, and the benefits are evaluated in terms of energy savings and carbon credits for CDM projects. It was proposed to two case studies using HEN data from literature, one concerns burning fossil fuels, and other one was evaluated the bagasse combustion. Both studies were applied the Aspen Energy Analyzer® software and its performance of the design of the HEN employed the Automatic Retrofit and Automatic Recommend Designs features were evaluated too. GHG emissions were mitigated; the first case confirmed that the carbon credits improve Capital Expenditure Index, returning 13% less in payback depending on fossil fuel price. The second case presents a maximum value of reduction of 26.2% burning bagasse, 7.7% GHG emissions, 30% increase power generation, together with 19,411 carbon credits per year. / Em virtude da constatação inequívoca do aquecimento global, foi estabelecida pela Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU) a Convenção-Quadro sobre Mudança do Clima. No seu âmbito, foi criado o Protocolo de Quioto, que define mecanismos que enquadram responsabilidades e obrigações, abrindo oportunidades de desenvolvimento social e econômico sustentável. Um dos mecanismos estabelecido é o Mecanismo de Desenvolvimento Limpo (MDL), o único aplicável a países em desenvolvimento como o Brasil. Assim, no âmbito industrial existem várias oportunidades de redução das emissões de gases de efeito estufa (GEE) aliados a trabalhos de integração energética. Além do comprometimento sustentável, é possível obter cenários economicamente viáveis devido à redução de energia associada à mitigação das emissões de GEE. O objetivo deste trabalho foi estudar a síntese de rede de trocadores de calor (RTC) na redução do consumo de utilidades e de emissões de GEE, além de contabilizar os benefícios gerados na economia de combustíveis e a obtenção de créditos de carbono ligados a projetos que promovem o desenvolvimento limpo. Foram realizados dois estudos de casos com os dados da RTC obtidos da literatura, um referente à queima de combustíveis fósseis e outro referente à combustão do bagaço. Em ambos os estudos foi utilizado o software Aspen Energy Analyzer®, tendo como opções as ferramentas Automatic Retrofit e Automatic Recommend Designs, sendo estas avaliadas quanto ao seu desempenho na otimização da RTC. Foram mitigadas as emissões dos GEE, sendo que o primeiro caso foi comprovado que os créditos de carbono promovem um retorno financeiro mais rápido de até 13% dependendo do combustível fóssil e no segundo foi obtida uma redução de até 26,2% da queima do bagaço, 7,7% das emissões de GEE, geração extra de energia elétrica de até 30% e crédito de carbono de até 19.411 t CO2 ao ano.