Performance analysis of a zeotropic mixture (R290/CO2) for trans-critical power cycle☆

Low critical temperature limits the application of CO2 trans-critical power cycle. The binary mixture of R290/CO2 has higher critical temperature. Using mixture fluid may solve the problem that subcrit...     

采用新型循环方式的硅胶-水吸附式制冷机

The paper proposes an adsorption refrigeration system using silica gel and water as working pair with novel design. In this system, the adsorber, condenser and evaporator are housed in one vacuum chamber, forming an adsorption refrigeration unit. Two such units work alternatively to supply cooling continuously. The construction, parameters of the adsorber, condenser and evaporator and characteristics of the cycle are given. The experimental results demonstrate that the mass recovery process can significantly improve the cooling capacity and COP. The effects of evaporating temperature and cooling water inlet temperature on chiller performance are analyzed. Comparison of the novel system and conventional ones demonstrates that the novel system has a higher performance than the conventional ones with heat recovery process if the problem of cooling loss can be resolved.     

应用于低温加热的肉豆蔻酸和硬脂酸共熔混合物的储热特性

Stearic acid （67.83℃） and myristic acid （52.32℃） have high melting temperatures that can limit their use as phase change material （PCM） in low temperature solar heating applications such as solar space and greenhouse heating in regard to climatic requirements. However, their melting temperatures can be adjusted to a suitable value by preparing a eutectic mixture of the myristic acid （MA） and the stearic acid （SA）. In the present study, the thermal analysis based on differential scanning calorimetry （DSC） technique shows that the mixture of myristic acid （MA） and stearic acid （SA） in the respective composition （by mass） of 64% and 36% forms a eutectic mixture having melting temperature of 44.13℃ and the latent heat of fusion of 182.4J.g^-1. The thermal energy storage characteristics of the MA-SA eutectic mixture filled in the annulus of two concentric pipes were also experimentally established. The heat recovery rate and heat charging/discharging fractions were determined with respect to the change in the mass flow rate and the inlet temperature of heat transfer fluid. Based on the results obtained by DSC analysis and by the heat charging/discharging processes of the PCM, it can be concluded that the MA-SA eutectic mixture is a potential material for low temperature thermal energy storage applications in terms of its thermo-physical and thermal characteristics.     

An innovative trigeneration system using biogas as renewable energy

One of the ways to decrease the global primary energy consumption and the corresponding greenhouse gas emissions is the application of the combined cooling, heating and power generation technologies, known as trigeneration system. In this research an innovative trigeneration system, composed by an absorption heat pump, a mechanical compression heat pump, a steam plant, and a heat recovery plant is developed. The low temperature heat produced by absorption chiller is sent to a mechanical compression heat pump, that receives process water at low temperature from the heat recovery plant and bring it to higher temperatures. The trigeneration system is fed by biogas, a renewable energy. A design and a simulation of the system are developed by Chem Cad 6.3? software. The plant produces 925 kW of electrical energy, 2523 kW of thermal energy and 473 kW of cooling energy, by the combustion of 3280 kW of biogas. Primary energy rate(P.E.R.) is equal 1.04 and a sensitivity analysis is carried out to evaluate the effect of cooling capacity, produced electrical energy and process water temperature. The first has a negative effect, while other parameters have a positive effect on P.E.R. Compared to a cogeneration system, the trigeneration plant produces the 28% higher of power and the 40%lower of carbon dioxide emissions. An economic analysis shows that the plant is economically feasible only considering economic incentives obtained by the use of heat pumps and steam plant at high efficiency. Saving 6431 t·a~(-1) corresponding to 658000 EUR·a~(-1) of incentives, the plant has a net present value(N.P.V.) and a pay back period(P.B.P.) respectively equal to 371000 EUR and 4 year. Future works should optimize the process considering cost and energetic efficiency as the two objective functions.     

环戊烷/水乳化液水合法捕获烟道气中CO_2(英文)

Capture of CO2 by hydrate is one of the attractive technologies for reducing greenhouse effect.The primary challenges are the large energy consumption,low hydrate formation rate and separation efficiency.This work presents a new method for capture of CO2 from simulated flue gasCO2(16.60%,by mole) /N2 binary mixture by formation of cyclopentane(CP) hydrates at initial temperature of 8.1°C with the feed pressures from 2.49 to 3.95 MPa.The effect of cyclopentane and cyclopentane/water emulsion on the hydrate formation rate and CO2 separation efficiency was studied in a 1000 ml stirred reactor.The results showed the hydrate formation rate could be increased remarkably with cyclopentane/water emulsion.CO2 could be enriched to 43.97%(by mole) and 35.29%(by mole) from simulated flue gas with cyclopentane and cyclopentane/water(O/W) emulsion,respectively,by one stage hydrate separation under low feed pressure.CO2 separation factor with cyclopentane was 6.18,higher than that with cyclopentane/water emulsion(4.01) ,in the range of the feed pressure.The results demonstrated that cyclopentane/water emulsion is a good additive for efficient hydrate capture of CO2.     

乙烯-苯-乙苯三元系临界温度和临界压力研究

Critical temperature (Tc) and critical pressure (pc) of the ternary mixture of ethylene benzene ethylbenzene (the mole ratio of ethylbenzene to benzene was fixed at 0.95:0.05) were measured by using a high=pressure view cell with direct visual observation.The interaction coefficients obtained from the critical properties of the relevant binary systems were used to predict the critical properties (Tc,pc) of the ternary mixture.The agreement between the prediction and experiments is satisfactory.     

超临界流体色谱手性分离布洛芬

The separation method using chiral stationary phase （CSP） for the preparation of enantioselective compound was widely used. In this work, supercritical fluid chromatography（SFC） was proposed to resolve the chiral mixtures. To determine the optimum operating conditions for the chiral separation of the racemic ibuprofen, the retention factors and resolutions with the change in pressure, temperature and the content of IPA （%, by volume） in supercritical CO2 were investigated. Experiments showed that the retention factor decreased with the increase of pressure and decrease in temperature. The retention factor was also influenced by the content of IPA in mobile phase, as the content of IPA in the supercritical fluid increased, the retention factor decreased. The resolution of the enantiomers became worse with the increase of IPA in the supercritical fluid. Through optimizing the experimental conditions, a SFC procedure with 13MPa, 311.15K and 4% IPA in CO2 was obtained. The peak shape of the enantiomers was symmetric with supercritical fluid chromatography when compared to the asymmetric peak shape obtained by the conventional liquid chromatography. This work demonstrated that the developed supercritical fluid chromatography procedure was suitable for the chiral separation of ibuprofen enantiomers.     

热管型船用吸附制冰机的设计

A heat pipe type adsorption ice maker with two adsorbers for fishing boats is designed by using ammonia as refrigerant and compound of activated carbon-CaCl2 as adsorbent. This type of heat pipe adsorber can solve the problem of incompatibility between ammonia, copper, seawater and steel. The working process of the ice maker with 8.7kg adsorbent per bed is simulated. The results show that the optimal semi-cycle time is about 9 min at the evaporating temperature of -15℃, where the corresponding cooling power, specific cooling power per kilogram adsorbent SCP and coefficient of refrigerant performance COP are respectively 3.6kW, 217W·kg-1 and 0.404.     

气体添加剂对热脱硝过程影响的实验和建模研究

An experimental study of thermal DeNOx process with different additives was performed in an electricity- heated tubular flow reactor, showing that CO is less effective to lower the optimum temperature than H2 and CH4. The maximum NO reduction is lowered with H2 added, while it is hardly affected by CO or CH4. The temperature window is widened appreciably with CH4 added, while it is narrowed slightly by H2 or CO. The disadvantage of CH4 is that it causes CO emission due to its incomplete oxidation, and the maximum conversion of CH4 to CO is more than 50%. In general, the calculation using a detailed chemical kinetic model predicts most of the process features reasonably well. The analysis on reaction mechanism shows that the effects of these additives on NO reduction are achieved principally by promoting the production of &;#8226;OH radical.     

空气与水逆流直接接触热质交换模型计算及与实验比较

According to general equations deducted from a model of heat and mass transfer of air and water in direct contact counter flow reported in the author‘s previous work, the outlet parameters of air and water counter flow through a paper wet pad were calculated by using the MATLAB-software. Comparing the calculation results with experiment data of prior researchers, the deviation of calculated outlet air wet bulb temperature from experimental outlet air wet bulb temperature was less than 10%, the deviation of calculated outlet water temperature from experimental outlet water temperature was less thang 9%, and the deviation of calculated outlet air dry bulb temperature from experimental outlet air dry bulb temperature was less than 10% when NTUh was more than 0. 6. The deviation of calculated outlet air dry bulb temperature from experimental outlet air dry bulb temperature was more than 10% when NTUh was less than 0. 6. The model calculations were in good agreement with experiments and the general equations could be used to design evaporation cooling equipment, such as wet pad and so on.     

Optimization of volume to point conduction problem based on a novel thermal conductivity discretization algorithm

A conduction heat transfer process is enhanced by filling prescribed quantity and optimized-shaped high thermal conductivity materials to the substrate. Numerical simulations and analyses are performed on a volume to point conduction problem based on the principle of minimum entropy generation. In the optimization, the arrange-ment of high thermal conductivity materials is variable, the quantity of high thermal-conductivity material is constrained, and the objective is to obtain the maximum heat conduction rate as the entropy is the minimum. A novel algorithm of thermal conductivity discretization is proposed based on large quantity of calculations. Compared with other algorithms in literature, the average temperature in the substrate by the new algorithm is lower, while the highest temperature in the substrate is in a reasonable range. Thus the new algorithm is fea-sible. The optimization of volume to point heat conduction is carried out in a rectangular model with radiation boundary condition and constant surface temperature boundary condition. The results demonstrate that the al-gorithm of thermal conductivity discretization is applicable for volume to point heat conduction problems.     

苯在超临界水中的分子动力学研究

Microscopic structure and diffusion properties of benzene in ambient water (298 K, 0.1 MPa) and supercritical water (673--773 K, 25---35 MPa) are investigated by molecular dynamics simulation with site-site models.It is found that at the ambient condition, the water molecules surrounding a benzene molecule form a hydrogen bond network. The hydrogen bond interaction between supercritical water molecules decreases dramatically under supercritical conditions. The diffusion coefficients of both the solute molecule and solvent molecule at supercritical conditions increase by 30---180 times than those at the ambient condition. With the temperature approaching the critical temperature, the change of diffusion coefficient with pressure becomes pronounced.     

Using hot-vapor bypass for pressure control in distillation columns

Distillation column control is widely explored in literature due to its complexity and importance in chemical and petrochemical industries.In this process,pressure represents one of the most important variables to be controlled.However,there are few studies about how pressure affects the dynamic behavior of distillation columns and most research on distillation column control involve direct manipulation of cooling fluid through the condenser.Nevertheless,such an approach demands constant changes in cooling fluid flowrates that are commonly by the order of tons per hour,which can be difficult to work or even unfeasible in a real plant.Furthermore,this strategy is usually avoided,as it can cause fouling and corrosion acceleration.The hot-vapor bypass strategy fits well as a solution for these issues,eliminating the need to dynamically manipulate cooling fluid flowrates in the condensation unit.This work presents the modeling and simulation of a conventional distillation column for the separation of water and ethanol,in which a comparative study between a conventional pressure control and a control using hot-vapor bypass was performed.The main results were obtained through dynamic simulations which considered various disturbances in the feed stream,and demonstrated superior performance by the hot-vapor bypass system over the usual scheme proposed in literature,while evaluating the Integral Absolute Error (IAE) norm as the control performance index.     

多级热解制备木炭(英文)

Interests in charcoal usage have recently been re-ignited because it is believed that charcoal is a much better fuel than wood.The conventional charcoal production consumes a large amount of energy due to the prolonged heating time and cooling time which contribute to the process completing in one to several days.Wood pyrolysis consists of both endothermic and exothermic reactions as well as the decomposition of the different components at different temperature range(hemicellulose:200-260 ℃;cellulose:240-350 ℃ and lignin:280-500 ℃).In this study we propose a multistage pyrolysis which is an approach to carry out pyrolysis with multiple heating stages so as to gain certain processing benefits.We propose a three-stage approach which includes rapid stepwise heating stage to a variable target temperatures of 250 ℃,300 ℃,350 ℃ and 400 ℃,slow and gradual heating stage to a final temperature of 400 ℃ and adiabatic with cooling stage.The multi-stage pyrolysis process can save 30% energy and the processing time by using a first temperature target of 300 ℃ and heating rate of 5 ℃·min-1 to produce a fixed-carbon yield of 25.73% as opposed to the base case with a fixed-carbon yield of 23.18%.     

Soft-sensing modeling and intelligent optimal control strategy for distillation yield rate of atmospheric distillation oil refining process

It is a challenge to conserve energy for the large-scale petrochemical enterprises due to complex production process and energy diversification. As critical energy consumption equipment of atmospheric distillation oil refining process, the atmospheric distillation column is paid more attention to save energy. In this paper, the optimal problem of energy utilization efficiency of the atmospheric distillation column is solved by defining a new energy efficiency indicator — the distillation yield rate of unit energy consumption from the perspective of material flow and energy flow, and a soft-sensing model for this new energy efficiency indicator with respect to the multiple working conditions and intelligent optimizing control strategy are suggested for both increasing distillation yield and decreasing energy consumption in oil refining process. It is found that the energy utilization efficiency level of the atmospheric distillation column depends closely on the typical working conditions of the oil refining process, which result by changing the outlet temperature, the overhead temperature, and the bottom liquid level of the atmospheric pressure tower. The fuzzy C-means algorithm is used to classify the typical operation conditions of atmospheric distillation in oil refining process. Furthermore, the LSSVM method optimized with the improved particle swarm optimization is used to model the distillation rate of unit energy consumption. Then online optimization of oil refining process is realized by optimizing the outlet temperature, the overhead temperature with IPSO again. Simulation comparative analyses are made by empirical data to verify the effectiveness of the proposed solution.     

EOS状态下基于多相流有规栅格理论的水-碳氢化合物两相体系的临界轨迹关系

Quantitative representation of complicated behavior of fluid mixtures in the critical region by any of equation-of-state theories remains as a difficults thermodynamic topics to date.In the present work,a computational efforts were made for representing various types of critical loci of binary water with hydrocarbon systems showing Type Ⅱ and Type Ⅲ phase behavior by an elementary equation of state[called multi-fluid nonrandom lattice fluid EOS(MF-NLF EOS)]based on the lattice statistical mechanical theory.The model EOS requires two molecular parameters which representing molecular size and interaction energy for a pure component and single adjustable interaction energy parameter for binary mixtures.Critical temperature and pressure data were used to obtain molecular size parameter and vapor pressure data were used to obtain interaction energy parameter.The MF-NLF EOS model adapted in the present study correlated quantitatively well the critical loci of various binary water with hydrocarbon systems.     

溶剂极性对超临界乙醇中无限稀释扩散系数的影响

INTRODUCTION Ethanol has more accessible critical properties(Tc =241 ℃, Pc =6.38 Mpa) than water and stronger solubility power than carbon dioxide. Nearcritical and supercritical ethanol is a compressible fluid exhibiting great tunability with both temperature and pressure.     

低温位废热回收与液化天然气冷能利用的集成研究

Two novel thermal cycles based on Brayton cycle and Rankine cycle are proposed, respectively, which integrate the recovery of low-level waste heat and Liquefied Nature Gas （LNG） cold energy utilization for power generation. Cascade utilization of energy is realized in the two thermal cycles, where low-level waste heat,low-temperature exergy and pressure exergy of LNG are utilized efficiently through the system synthesis. The simulations are carried out using the commercial Aspen Plus 10.2, and the results are analyzed. Compared with the conventional Brayton cycle and Rankine cycle, the two novel cycles bring 60.94% and 60% in exergy efficiency, respectively and 53.08% and 52.31% in thermal efficiency, respectively.     

羰基硫在二乙二醇二乙醚/水二元混合体系中的水解

The solubility and hydrolysis of carbonyl sulfide in binary mixture of diethylene glycol diethyl ether and water are studied as a function of composition. The use of an aqueous solution of diethylene glycol diethyl ether enhances the solubility and hydrolysis rate of carbonyl sulfide compared with that in pure water. The composition of the mixture with maximum hydrolysis rate varies with temperature. The thermophysical properties including density, viscosity, and surface tension as a function of composition at 20℃ under atmospheric pressure as well as liquid-liquid equilibrium (LLE) data over the temperature range from 28℃ to 90℃ are also measured for the binary mixture.     

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF HFC-134a GAS HYDRATE FORMATION PROCESS

Refrigerant gas hydrates have brilliant prospects as cool storage material of air-conditioning system. In this paper, when the ratio of the weight of HFC-134a to that of water is 2.17%, systematic experiments have been carried out on the formation process of the HFC-134a gas hydrate including of the phase equilibrium, the influence of supercooling degree, and the influence of agitation. The results indicate that the critical decomposition temperature and the critical decomposition pressure of R134a hydrate is 283.4K and 414K respectively, the formation of gas hydrate was promoted with increasing the supercooling degree and the agitation. However, it is desired that the supercooling degree is smaller. Therefore, it is important problem that the study of optimum of supercooling degree for cool storage system.