The theme of the work is the integration of gas microturbines in industrial plants. The aim is to extend the application potential of this technology by the design of the integration into the process in which this technology is not exploited yet. This process is a professional laundry service. Professional laundry services have been selected as a representative of the generally known process, which is interesting in terms of energy intensity. Combining of progressive cogeneration technology and enhanced industrial process brings a promising application potential. The work focuses on small industrial laundries to 500 kg of processed linen per shift. As a cogeneration unit a gas microturbine Capstone C30 has been used. The microturbine has an adequate power due to the process. Complete laundry operation and a gas microturbine is a part of the equipment of the Laboratory of energetically demanding processes in the NETME Centre. The main contribution of this work is to design a system for utilization of flue gas heat for heating of the main input currents to the laundry room, a hot water for washing machines and warm air for drying in the dryers. The integration of the gas microturbine made to suit specific process can be a major cost-saving measures with positive impacts on the economy of operation.

This master‘s thesis deals with the problematic of flue gas produced by a gas microturbine which is used as a drying media for general drying. Flue gas needs to be cooled to specific temperatures. The computing part of this work includes solving the microturbine and the mixer. Further part contains bilance solution of a general dryer for resolving the output parameters of wet flue gas. In the last part, the problematic of drying in a laundry facility is described, along with using the flue gas for drying at the specific clothes dryer Primus T24 G.

L’objectif est de développer un algorithme de gestion énergétique d’un parc de production comprenant de la production distribuée sous forme de micro turbines à gaz et de générateurs PV pilotables dits «actifs » en vue de minimiser le coût économique et environnemental. Les principes généraux de la production d’électricité à base d’énergie renouvelable et non renouvelable sont d’abord présentés et le fonctionnement actuel des réseaux électriques est rappelé pour situer les innovations attendues dans les futurs réseaux dits intelligents. Ensuite, un algorithme de suivi du point de puissance maximale et de puissance limitée dans un générateur actif PV est présenté. La modélisation des micro-turbines à gaz est aussi présentée. La contribution principale concerne la conception d’une planification opérationnelle des moyens de production la veille pour le lendemain à partir de prédictions de la charge et de la production PV en utilisant une programmation dynamique adaptée. La méthode proposée prédétermine le profil de production des générateurs de manière à réaliser une optimisation globale d’une fonction objective pour un réseau électrique urbain. Pour l’exploitation, un algorithme d’ajustement est proposé et intervient toutes les ½ heures de manière à prendre en compte les déviations par rapport aux prédictions en utilisant un réseau de communication. Un micro réseau urbain est utilisé pour tester les algorithmes de gestion implantés dans un superviseur interfacé à un simulateur temps réel. Des comparaisons dans des situations identiques avec différentes fonctions objectives sont réalisées ainsi que des évaluations économiques et environnementales à l’aide d’indicateurs / The presented research works aim to develop an energy management system for a cluster of distributed micro gas turbines and controllable PV generators called «active generators». The general principles of electricity generation from renewable and non-renewable energy sources are first presented. The operation of actual electric grids is also recalled in order to highlight the challenges and expected innovations in future Smart Grids. Then, the integration of a novel method for maximum and limited power point tracking in a PV-based active generator is presented. The modeling of micro-gas turbines in a microgrid energy management system is also presented. The main contribution of this thesis concerns the design of an operational planning of generators one day ahead by the means of a dynamic programming-based algorithm, taking into account the PV power production and the consumption forecasts. The proposed method calculates the production planning of generators by performing a global optimization of an objective function. An adjustment algorithm is proposed and executed every ½ hours through a communication network in order to take into account the uncertainty in forecasted values. An urban microgrid is used for testing the developed algorithms through Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) with hardware-in-the-loop and real-time simulations. Comparisons of the microgrid operation in identical situations with different objective functions are performed, as well as evaluations of economic and environmental indicators

The use of gas microturbines as a primary unit in CHP is still weak in the industrial process. It gives the driving force to the main aim of this master thesis, which is the technical and economic evaluation of the gas microturbines waste heat recovery system, which is the key factor for their economic sustainability. Assignment contains description of CHP system that was gradually built in LENP laboratory, part of NETME Centre. The author has joined the final work before start-up of the CHP system. He presents and describes results of the first experiments on this unit. The flue gas of a microturbine was used for heating water by heat exchanger flue gas–water and for direct linen drying. The case study of laundry with capacity 10 tons per shift was developed in cooperation with companies in laundry care. Results of those tests were used to process integration and utilization of this professional industrial laundry All obstacles found and opportunities of the use of microturbines are comprehensively described and tested in case studies, which are simulated in Chemstation Chemcad Software. Results of the thesis are expected to be useful these fields: the use of gas microturbines in industry & energy savings in industrial laundries.

This master’s thesis deals with problematics of natural gas microturbine integration into industrial laundry operation. This integration means utilization of waste heat for direct drying and water heating in a heat exchanger. This heated water can be used in further laundry processes, for example laundering. All the experiments were carried out on the cogeneration system that is installed in Laboratory of Energy Intensive Processes in NETME Centre at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Brno University of Technology. This system consists of a natural gas microturbine Capstone C30 with nominal electric power of 30 kW, an industrial dryer Primus DX55 with a nominal capacity of 55 kg for laundry and a heat exchanger Vakading type Vakavlas with nominal power of 53 kW. All necessary theoretical and technical preparation was done in order to carry out experiments as follows: • Standard drying program • Water accumulation test • Test of performance of heat exchanger • Direct drying with the use of microturbine’s flue gases These experiments were analyzed and discussed within this thesis. The main contribution of this work is as follows: • Summary of all the knowledge in the area of direct drying • Creation of methodology of utilization of flue gases for direct drying not only in laundry industry but in related fields • Summary of requirements and ways of heat exchanger testing and determination of heat exchanger parameters • Determination of optimal working settings of installed cogeneration system • Description of weak spots in the system and suggested improvements • Basic economic analysis of operating costs During the experiments, it was found that in case of direct drying better results could be achieved in comparison with standard drying. The functionality of the whole system together with the heat exchanger was verified and thus also the possibility of integrating the turbine into the washing process was confirmed. The integration of a natural gas microturbine is both technically and economically feasible for many industrial applications.