TY - GEN
T1 - REFINERY WASTE HEAT POWERED ABSORPTION REFRIGERATION - CYCLE SPECIFICATION AND DESIGN
AU - Erickson, Donald C.
AU - Anand, G.
AU - Papar, Riyaz A.
AU - Tang, Jingsong
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1998 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). All rights reserved.
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - In an effort to increase the energy efficiency and reduce environmental emissions from refineries, the Commerce City Refinery of Ultramar Diamond Shamrock, the Office of Industrial Technologies at the U.S. Department of Energy and a team of contractors have collaborated to implement a novel project. A waste heat fired Absorption Refrigeration Unit (ARU) was designed, fabricated, installed and is currently completing a one year field test at the oil refinery in Denver, Colorado. Data is being gathered to document the performance and compare to the predictions. The ARU is designed to provide refrigeration for two process streams at the refinery while being powered by waste heat from a third process stream. The refrigeration benefits the refinery by recovering salable product and increasing the capacity of the process units with no additional electrical demand. The constraints to be satisfied by the ARU design were very stringent: low temperature waste heat; very low refrigeration temperature; limited plot space; geographically separated streams; and very limited cooling water, hr order to satisfy all these constraints and to make the economics more favorable, several new concepts were developed and incorporated in the ARU. This paper describes the various cycles considered and the qualitative and quantitative considerations involved in screening the cycles. The parametric analysis and optimization of the most promising cycle is presented.
AB - In an effort to increase the energy efficiency and reduce environmental emissions from refineries, the Commerce City Refinery of Ultramar Diamond Shamrock, the Office of Industrial Technologies at the U.S. Department of Energy and a team of contractors have collaborated to implement a novel project. A waste heat fired Absorption Refrigeration Unit (ARU) was designed, fabricated, installed and is currently completing a one year field test at the oil refinery in Denver, Colorado. Data is being gathered to document the performance and compare to the predictions. The ARU is designed to provide refrigeration for two process streams at the refinery while being powered by waste heat from a third process stream. The refrigeration benefits the refinery by recovering salable product and increasing the capacity of the process units with no additional electrical demand. The constraints to be satisfied by the ARU design were very stringent: low temperature waste heat; very low refrigeration temperature; limited plot space; geographically separated streams; and very limited cooling water, hr order to satisfy all these constraints and to make the economics more favorable, several new concepts were developed and incorporated in the ARU. This paper describes the various cycles considered and the qualitative and quantitative considerations involved in screening the cycles. The parametric analysis and optimization of the most promising cycle is presented.
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U2 - 10.1115/IMECE1998-0866
DO - 10.1115/IMECE1998-0866
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85124600420
T3 - ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)
SP - 391
EP - 402
BT - Advanced Energy Systems
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 1998 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 1998
Y2 - 15 November 1998 through 20 November 1998
ER -
