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Exergy analysis of a new proposal combined cycle from Sabalan geothermal source

Authors
mehran abdolalipouradl 1
Shahram Khalilarya 2
samad jafarmadar 3
1 urmia uni
2 professor at mechanical engineering college of Urmia university
3 member
Abstract
The use of new energies, including geothermal energy, is rapidly devoloping in the world. In Iran, the Sabalan area has a great potential for generating energy from geothermal energy sources. In this paper, a new power generation combined cycle (flash combined cycle with supercritical carbon dioxide and organic Rankine cycle) is proposed with respect to two wells with different temperatures and pressures for Sabalan geothermal sources. For the organic Rankine cycle, four fluids are considered appropriately and then proposed combination cycle is investigated by energy and exergy analysis. In this study, a new method proposed for the determination of Pinch point for carbon dioxide heat exchangers. In the end the proposed cycle has been optimized relative to seprators pressure, the second evaporator temperature and the carbon dioxide cycle pressure ratio. The results show that the n-butane agent has been selected as the most suitable fluid for the Rankine cycle. For the optimal condition, the net power of the proposed cycle is 19934 kW, the cycle efficiency will be 17.05% and the exergy efficiency will be65.38 %.The results of exergy analysis show that the low pressure turbine in geothermal have the highest value of exergy destruction. The results show that net power output, energy and exergy efficiencies of the proposed cycle in this paper is 15.29 %, 17.06% and 18.35% higher than the corresponding values obtained for the previously proposed system.
Keywords
Exergy analysis
Sabalan Geothermal Power Plant
Organic Rankine Cycle
Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Cycle

Subjects

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Modares Mechanical Engineering
Volume 18, Issue 4
August 2018
Pages 11-22