A New Multi-Heuristic Method to Optimize the Ammonia–Water Power/Cooling Cycle Combined with an HCCI Engine

Keyvan Bahlouli (), Nasser Lotfi and Mazyar Ghadiri Nejad
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Keyvan Bahlouli: Energy System Engineering Program, Mechanical Engineering Department, Cyprus International University, 99258 Nicosia, TRNC, Turkey
Nasser Lotfi: Computer Engineering Department, Cyprus International University, 99258 Nicosia, TRNC, Turkey
Mazyar Ghadiri Nejad: Industrial Engineering Department, Cyprus International University, 99258 Nicosia, TRNC, Turkey

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 8, 1-14

Abstract: Nowadays, sustainability is one of the key elements which should be considered in energy systems. Such systems are essential in any manufacturing system to supply the energy requirements of those systems. To optimize the energy consumption of any manufacturing system, various applications have been developed in the literature, with a number of pros and cons. In addition, in the majority of such applications, multi-objective optimization (MOO) plays an outstanding role. In related studies, the MOO strategy has been mainly used to maximize the performance and minimize the total cost of a trigeneration system with an HCCI (homogeneous charge compression ignition) engine as a prime mover based on the NSGA-II (non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-II) algorithm. The current study introduces a novel multi-heuristic system (MHS) that serves as a metaheuristics cooperation platform for selecting the best design parameters. The MHS operates on a proposed strategy and prefers short runs of various metaheuristics to a single long run of a metaheuristic. The proposed MHS consists of four multi-objective metaheuristics collaborating to work on a common population of solutions. The optimization aims to maximize the exergy efficiency and minimize the total system cost. By utilizing four local archives and one global archive, the system optimizes these two objective functions. The idea behind the proposed MHS is that metaheuristics will be able to compensate for each other’s shortcomings in terms of extracting the most promising regions of the search space. Comparing the findings of the developed MHS shows that implementing the suggested strategy decreases the total unit costs of the system products to 25.85 USD/GJ, where the total unit cost of the base system was 28.89 USD/GJ, and the exergy efficiency of the system is increased up to 39.37%, while this efficiency was 22.81% in the base system. The finding illustrates significant improvements in system results and proves the high performance of the proposed method.

Keywords: ammonia–water cycle; multi-heuristic approach; multi-objective problem; trigeneration; exergy efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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