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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Analysis of parabolic through collector cleaning system under adaptive scheduling policy

Turkoglu, Aykut 10 July 2017 (has links)
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of stochastic dust accumulations and rain events on the cleaning schedule of the parabolic trough collectors that are used to generate power at concentrated solar power (CSP) plants. The level of cleanliness is proportional to the power produced, and thus it affects the economic pay off at CSP plants. Current practice to address this dust problem, termed as conventional cleaning, is to follow a periodic cleaning schedule that entails a fixed setup cost for each cleaning event. The frequency of cleaning under such conventional (periodic schedule) policy is selected based upon a tradeoff between the set up cost and the payoff from improving the cleanliness factor. The conventional practice is to have a constant and periodic cleaning schedule over an entire season (e.g. either severe or mild combination of the dust and rain over a 180-day cleaning season, with either 8 or 4 cycles scheduled for the severe and mild seasons respectively). This thesis draws upon evidence from recent literature to show that presence of random rain events improves the cleanliness of parabolic troughs in CSP plants. Upon analyzing such evidence, this study models rain event as a compound Poisson process that replenishes the level of cleanliness. In this scenario, it is possible to establish an adaptive threshold policy for scheduling plant cleaning that analogous to the formulation of a (s,S) inventory management policy, subject to random replenishment of inventory. The study offers a review of related literature to establish that such formulations are not amenable to a close form solution. The second half of the thesis describes a numerical study that has been conducted using Arena Simulation package for characterizing the adaptive cleaning policy. The parameter of interest for assessing system performance is the average payoff over the average cost of cleaning for a 180-day cleaning season. Numerical study shows that adaptive cleaning policy outperforms the conventional (periodic) cleaning policy under reasonable assumptions for dust and rain event distributions. As an extension, the simulation study also examines the use of alternative cleaning system, known as electrodynamic screening (EDS), for different rain scenarios that may be used in conjunction with either conventional or adaptive cleaning policies to improve the overall system performance. / 2019-07-09T00:00:00Z
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Otimização da programação das limpezas em redes de trocadores de calor utilizando técnicas de programação matemática / Optimization of cleanings in heat exchanger networks using mathematical programming techniques

Julia Coelho Lemos 29 October 2014 (has links)
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Redes de trocadores de calor são bastante utilizadas na indústria química para promover a integração energética do processo, recuperando calor de correntes quentes para aquecer correntes frias. Estas redes estão sujeitas à deposição, o que causa um aumento na resistência à transferência de calor, prejudicando-a. Uma das principais formas de diminuir o prejuízo causado por este fenômeno é a realização periódica de limpezas nos trocadores de calor. O presente trabalho tem como objetivo desenvolver um novo método para encontrar a programação ótima das limpezas em uma rede de trocadores de calor. O método desenvolvido utiliza o conceito de horizonte deslizante associado a um problema de programação linear inteira mista (MILP). Este problema MILP é capaz de definir o conjunto ótimo de trocadores de calor a serem limpos em um determinado instante de tempo (primeiro instante do horizonte deslizante), levando em conta sua influência nos instantes futuros (restante do horizonte deslizante). O problema MILP utiliza restrições referentes aos balanços de energia, equações de trocadores de calor e número máximo de limpezas simultâneas, com o objetivo de minimizar o consumo de energia da planta. A programação ótima das limpezas é composta pela combinação dos resultados obtidos em cada um dos instantes de tempo.O desempenho desta abordagem foi analisado através de sua aplicação em diversos exemplos típicos apresentados na literatura, inclusive um exemplo de grande porte de uma refinaria brasileira. Os resultados mostraram que a abordagem aplicada foi capaz de prover ganhos semelhantes e, algumas vezes, superiores aos da literatura, indicando que o método desenvolvido é capaz de fornecer bons resultados com um baixo esforço computacional / Heat exchanger networks are widely used in industry to promote heat recoveryby making hot and cold streams to exchange heat, however these networks are subjected to fouling, which causes an increase in heat transfer resistance, jeopardizing it. One of the main techniques used to diminish the effects of fouling is to perform periodical cleanings in the heat exchangers. This works goal is to develop a new method to find the optimal cleaning schedule for a heat exchanger network. The developed method uses a sliding horizon concept associated with a mixed integer linear programming problem. This MILP problem is capable of finding the optimal set of heat exchangers that must be cleaned at a certain instant (first instant of the sliding horizon), considering its influence on the further instants (the rest of the sliding horizon). The MILP problem consists of constraints corresponding to energy balances, heat exchanger equations and maximum number of cleanings.The problem objective function represents the energy consumption that must be minimized. The optimal cleaning schedule is formed by the combination of the results to each one of the time instants. The proposed approach was evaluated through its application in several cases presented in literature, including a large size example from a Brazilian refinery. The results show that the proposed approach was capable of finding similar and, sometimes, superior results compared to the literature ones, concluding that the developed method was capable of providing good results with low computational efforts
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Otimização da programação das limpezas em redes de trocadores de calor utilizando técnicas de programação matemática / Optimization of cleanings in heat exchanger networks using mathematical programming techniques

Julia Coelho Lemos 29 October 2014 (has links)
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Redes de trocadores de calor são bastante utilizadas na indústria química para promover a integração energética do processo, recuperando calor de correntes quentes para aquecer correntes frias. Estas redes estão sujeitas à deposição, o que causa um aumento na resistência à transferência de calor, prejudicando-a. Uma das principais formas de diminuir o prejuízo causado por este fenômeno é a realização periódica de limpezas nos trocadores de calor. O presente trabalho tem como objetivo desenvolver um novo método para encontrar a programação ótima das limpezas em uma rede de trocadores de calor. O método desenvolvido utiliza o conceito de horizonte deslizante associado a um problema de programação linear inteira mista (MILP). Este problema MILP é capaz de definir o conjunto ótimo de trocadores de calor a serem limpos em um determinado instante de tempo (primeiro instante do horizonte deslizante), levando em conta sua influência nos instantes futuros (restante do horizonte deslizante). O problema MILP utiliza restrições referentes aos balanços de energia, equações de trocadores de calor e número máximo de limpezas simultâneas, com o objetivo de minimizar o consumo de energia da planta. A programação ótima das limpezas é composta pela combinação dos resultados obtidos em cada um dos instantes de tempo.O desempenho desta abordagem foi analisado através de sua aplicação em diversos exemplos típicos apresentados na literatura, inclusive um exemplo de grande porte de uma refinaria brasileira. Os resultados mostraram que a abordagem aplicada foi capaz de prover ganhos semelhantes e, algumas vezes, superiores aos da literatura, indicando que o método desenvolvido é capaz de fornecer bons resultados com um baixo esforço computacional / Heat exchanger networks are widely used in industry to promote heat recoveryby making hot and cold streams to exchange heat, however these networks are subjected to fouling, which causes an increase in heat transfer resistance, jeopardizing it. One of the main techniques used to diminish the effects of fouling is to perform periodical cleanings in the heat exchangers. This works goal is to develop a new method to find the optimal cleaning schedule for a heat exchanger network. The developed method uses a sliding horizon concept associated with a mixed integer linear programming problem. This MILP problem is capable of finding the optimal set of heat exchangers that must be cleaned at a certain instant (first instant of the sliding horizon), considering its influence on the further instants (the rest of the sliding horizon). The MILP problem consists of constraints corresponding to energy balances, heat exchanger equations and maximum number of cleanings.The problem objective function represents the energy consumption that must be minimized. The optimal cleaning schedule is formed by the combination of the results to each one of the time instants. The proposed approach was evaluated through its application in several cases presented in literature, including a large size example from a Brazilian refinery. The results show that the proposed approach was capable of finding similar and, sometimes, superior results compared to the literature ones, concluding that the developed method was capable of providing good results with low computational efforts

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