Delocalized organic pollutant destruction through a self-sustaining supercritical water oxidation process |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium;2. Vlaamse Instelling vor Technologisch Onderzoek, Boeretang 200, B-2400 Mol, Belgium;3. Department of Chemical Engineering, University Politehnica of Bucharest, RO-011061 Polizu 1-7, Bucharest, Romania |
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Abstract: | Supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) is a recent development aiming at the destruction of organic pollutants present with low concentrations in waste waters. The present paper focuses on the process simulation of SCWO with emphasis on the proper modelling of supercritical thermodynamic conditions and on the possibility to make the SCWO process self-sufficient from the energetic viewpoint. Self-sufficiency may be of interest to encourage more delocalization of waste water treatment.The process of SCWO for dilute waste water (no more than 5 wt.%) is modelled through the ASPEN Plus© process simulator. Studies were made to search for energetic self-sufficiency conditions using various technologies for power production from the heat of reaction, like supercritical water expansion in a turbine, use of a closed Brayton cycle (CBC) and use of an organic Rankine cycle (ORC). The results obtained showed that the process is energetically self-sufficient using either a small supercritical turbine, or an ORC. In less restrictive conditions regarding the component efficiencies, the CBC, in theory, also leads to self-sufficiency, but from the analysis, it appears that this solution is less realistic. |
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