Performance optimization of an open simple-cycle gas turbine combined cooling, heating and power plant driven by basic oxygen furnace gas in China's steelmaking plants

Lingen Chen, Bo Yang, Huijun Feng, Yanlin Ge and Shaojun Xia

Energy, 2020, vol. 203, issue C

Abstract: Based on production data of some steelmaking plants in China and applying finite-time thermodynamics, this paper establishes a physical model of simple open gas turbine combined cooling, heating and power plant driven by basic oxygen furnace gas. Thermal process of each component is analyzed. Useful energy output rate and first law efficiency are considered as optimization objectives. Cases with or without constraints of fuel mass flow rate and overall size are investigated. In the case of without constraints, compressor inlet pressure drop (i.e. air mass flow rate) and pressure ratio are respectively optimized, and the maximum useful energy output rate is obtained. In the case of with constraints, it is found that the first law efficiency also exists maximum with respect to compressor inlet pressure drop and pressure ratio, the optimal flow area allocations among the components are obtained. The results show that maximum useful energy output rate and first law efficiency increase with heat source temperature, efficiencies of compressors and turbine, component flow area and cooling temperature, while decrease with heating temperature. Effects of energy and exergy saving, CO2 emission reduction and cost saving are analyzed compared with conventional separate generation plants, and partial model is validated.

Keywords: Basic oxygen furnace gas; Open gas turbine; Waste heat utilization; Absorption refrigeration; Heating supply; Optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2020.117791

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