2473 results about "Cogeneration" patented technology

A combination of SAGD with cogeneration technology for exploiting shallow heavy oil and bitumen reservoirs under primary, secondary and tertiary thermal recovery. Superheated steam is generated by the heat recovery from the exhaust of an above-ground hydrocarbon powered turbine driven electric generator cogeneration plant and is injected through well bores into the hydrocarbon bearing reservoir that is traversed by at least one horizontal producing well bore and one injection well bore to heat the reservoir formation and to induce gravity drainage of the hydrocarbons and allowing their recovery from the horizontal producing well bore. Electrical power that is generated is sold to the electric grid and can be used to offset the fuel costs for the above ground hydrocarbon turbine-driven elector generators.

This invention is related to so-called combined cycle co-generation installations, and it addresses present concerns of the industry. Among these, combustion stability, corrosion (due to large water content in the flue gases), large heat transfer areas, and the like. In some embodiments, an additional heat exchanger is added to heat combustion air with a portion of the exhaust gases resulting from an engine, preferably a gas turbine. As a result, the efficiency of the cycle will improve, the oxidant will be enriched by above 50% oxygen, the combustion process will be enhanced, and the dimensions of the boiler may be reduced. It is considered that the combustion air will require between 10% and 80% of the total flue gas volume, more preferably between 20% and 40%. This is the portion of the flue gases sent through the heat exchanger. A control system designed to optimize the flow of the different streams is also presented. Other inventive embodiments forego heat exchanges in lieu of precise control of two flows of exhaust gas, with preferred addition of additional oxidant to the boiler bumers.

Methods and systems for low emission power generation in hydrocarbon recovery processes are provided. One system includes integrated pressure maintenance and miscible flood systems with low emission power generation. An alternative system provides for low emission power generation, carbon sequestration, enhanced oil recovery (EOR), or carbon dioxide sales using a hot gas expander and external combustor. Another alternative system provides for low emission power generation using a gas power turbine to compress air in the inlet compressor and generate power using hot carbon dioxide laden gas in the expander. Other efficiencies may be gained by incorporating heat cross-exchange, a desalination plant, co-generation, and other features.

The invention discloses a process for producing low carbon olefin and arene parallel cogeneration gasoline by using methanol as a raw material. In the process, the methanol is used as the raw material and a molecular sieve catalyst is adopted to produce the low carbon olefin and arene parallel cogeneration gasoline by a methanol alkylation reaction and aromatization. In the process, the coal-based methanol is used as the raw material and can replace the conventional petroleum raw material to cogenerate a basis organic chemical raw material, and thus, the dependence degree of the conventional petrochemical industry on the petroleum can be reduced. Meanwhile, the process is also beneficial for reducing the foreign dependence degree of national petroleum, the strategic safety of energy and resources is improved, the production process of the process has low discharge, low pollution and low energy consumption, the requirements on green and environment protection are met, and the process has the advantages of low production cost and strong market competitiveness.

The present invention provides a steam injection heatpump heating system. The technical solution is that the system is composed of a steam injector, a high voltage steam pipeline, a low voltage steam pipeline, a throttling gear and a bypass connecting pipe. The high voltage steam enters in the heat exchanger heaing backwater after injecting lower steam turbine voltage condensing in low temperature, this realises waste heat recovery in low temperature condensing steam of the steam turbine. The core component is the steam injector, the high voltage heat supplying pumping is used as high-velocity jet acceleratively formed in the injecting tube of the working steam, and lower voltage steam turbine is rolled in the mixing room as injected flow, mixing steam in the expanding section of the steam injector is decelerately compressed in a certain back pressure, then sending to the heat interchanger for heating backwater, a certian back pressure mixing steam condenses to water after heat releasing in the exchanger, returning to the backwater system of electrical factory, completing thermal circuit of the combined heat and power generation set.

The invention discloses a microgrid running optimization system and method based on power and heat combined dispatching. Running restrains such as the output force characteristic, start, stop and climbing of a distributed type generator set and the charge and discharge characteristics of power and heat energy storage are comprehensively considered, a microgrid power and heat combined dispatching model containing a fan, a photovoltaic cell, a combined heat and power generation system, an electric boiler, a fuel cell and an energy storage (electrical energy storage and heat energy storage) is built, the 0-1 mixed integer nonlinear programming method is adopted for solving the optimal output force and total running cost of all units in the network, and power and heat dispatching contrastive analysis is carried out on the system and a traditional separated generation and combined generation optimization model. In addition, the influences of the heat and power reliability difference on the running are analyzed and discussed, and therefore the heat and power dispatching module is more reasonable, comprehensive and universal.

This invention provides a system and method for cogeneration of electric power and building heat that efficiently interfaces a liquid-cooled electric power generator with a multi-zone forced hot water (hydronic) space heating system. The system and method utilizes an electric generator with an electric output capacity (kW) that is near the time-averaged electric power consumption rate for the building and with a heat generation capacity that is useful for meeting building heating needs. This generator is operated as the priority source of heat for the building, but normally only when there is a demand for heat in building, with the intent of running the generator for long periods of time and generating a total amount of electric energy (kWhs) that is significant in comparison to the total electric energy consumption of the building over time. The actual onsite time-variable power demand (kW) is met by a combination of the cogenerated electric power produced on site and quantities of electric power from the public electric power grid or another external power source. Hence, useful electric power is generated on site as a by-product of the required generation of heat for space or water heating. The generator is run at a speed/operating condition that is appropriate to maintaining a long operational life.

The invention discloses a comprehensive utilization process of wood cellulose, which comprises the processes of comprehensive treatment, oligosaccharide preparation, lignin preparation, fiber ethanol preparation and the like. The invention has the advantages of decomposing a biomass macromolecular natural compact structure by using a high-pressure instant steam exploding technology, being beneficial to the separation and the extraction of the lignin, the cellulose and the cellulose, reducing the consumption of the energy sources and the materials, such as acid, alkali, heat, catalyst and the like for preprocessing, reducing the emission of pollutants and lightening the pollution of the environment. Secondly, the cogeneration of oligosaccharide and lignin realizes the comprehensive utilization of the energy sources, especially the application of the steam exploding technology ensures that the quality of the two products of the oligosaccharide and the lignin is greatly improved and the yield is greatly increased; and alcohol and the lignin of production fuels of sugar residues can be extracted irrespective of the order.

A Waste to Liquid Hydrocarbon Refinery System that transforms any municipal solid wastes and hazardous industrial wastes, Biomass or any carbon containing feedstock into synthetic hydrocarbon, particularly, but not exclusively, diesel and gasoline and/or electricity and co-generated heat, comprising three major subsystems: i) the Pyro-Electric Thermal Converter (PETC) (10) and Plasma Arc (PA) waste and biomass gasification subsystem (1); ii) the hydrocarbon synthesis subsystem (2); and iii) the electricity generation and heat co-generation subsystem (3).

A cogeneration system is disclosed which includes a generator, a drive source for driving the generator, a waste heat supplying heat exchanger for enhancing the heating performance of a heat pump type air conditioner, an auxiliary heating heat exchanger using the waste heat of the drive source as a heat source for heating indoor air, and a regeneration heat supplying heat exchanger using the waste heat of the drive source as a heat source for regenerating a dehumidifier. The cogeneration system can use the waste heat of the drive source for diverse purposes in accordance with the indoor environment, and can have a maximal efficiency.

A solar electrolysis power co-generation system includes a solar electrolysis source and a control unit. The solar electrolysis source includes a solar panel, an electrolysis unit, a hermetically sealed compressor, a hydrogen tank, and a hydrogen-powered fuel cell and produces, compresses, and stores hydrogen gas that is used to fuel the fuel cell. The control unit includes an inverter, a microprocessor, and a modem. The control unit connects the solar electrolysis power source with a power grid and with an individual consumer having an electrical load. The power co-generation system utilizes the electrolysis of water and solar energy to power a fuel cell. The energy produced with the fuel cell may be provided to an existing power gird as well as to an individual consumer. Further a method for decentralized power co-generation includes the step of providing a plurality of solar electrolysis power co-generation systems.

Disclosed is a gasification technique for converting biomass, which is difficult to treat, into clean gas fuel able to be burned in a cogeneration system. The gasification technique includes first stage fluidized-bed catalytic gasification, and second stage gasification of tar and catalytic reforming to convert nitrogen in tar, and HCN in a flammable gas into NH₃, unlike conventional gasification techniques. In addition, since the temperature of a total gasification process is lower than a melting point of ash, powdery ash is generated and thus easily treated. Also, little heat is released due to the low process temperature, and therefore, a compact reactor may be designed to produce gas having a high caloric value. Further, the generated tar is recovered and reused in other processes, and the gas fuel contains a small amount of ammonia.

A renewable electric power system includes a high temperature superconducting wind turbine using high temperature superconducting yttrium-barium-copper oxide for the rotor and stator windings as well as a superconducting bearing. Power from the turbine is stored in a high temperature superconducting magnetic storage system that also uses HTS YBCO. Also included is a regenerative solid oxide fuel cell/electrolyzer with steam turbine cogeneration. The system operates on a managed day/night cycle. During daytime, the energy produced by the wind turbines and fuel cells is transmitted to the grid. During nocturnal hours, the wind turbine is used to provide low cost electricity to the reversible fuel cells operating in the electrolysis mode producing hydrogen and oxygen that is stored for later use. Alternatively, the fuel cells can remain in electrolysis mode producing hydrogen and oxygen for the market. A modified interactive system generates power on a continuous twenty-four hour cycle.

A process for removal and recovery of nutrients and recycling of water from digested manure or other organic wastes. A first step involves separating waste from an anaerobic digester into digested liquids, digested solids, and biogas. A second step involves precipitating solids from the digested liquids. A third step involves stripping ammonia from the digested liquids. A fourth step involves injecting an exhaust stream of carbon dioxide drawn from the co-generator into the digested liquids to reduce the pH and raise the temperature of the digested liquid. A fifth step involves recycling the digested liquids back to the anaerobic digester for use in diluting in coming solid wastes. A sixth step involves passing the excess ammonia stripped from the digested liquid through the digested solids to recover nitrogen through aborption with the resultant digested solids being usable as a biofertilizer with a high nitrogen content. A seventh step involves capturing the biogas for use in a co-generation system.

The invention relates to coal gas-steam cogeneration method and opposite furnace. Wherein, fuel burns in combustion chamber to generate smoke gas, the latter enters heat exchanger after cyclone separator to generate steam; some cycle dust collected by cyclone separator returns to chamber, other enters vaporizer; fuel takes pyrogenic gasification reaction to generate coal gas with reacted product back to chamber; the cogeneration furnace has double-cycle fluidized bed loop, wherein, the burning loop composes of a chamber, a smoke gas separator, and a refeeding device; the gasification loop composes of a gasification room, a coal gas separator, and a refeeding device; two loops are coupled by hot dust allocator and refeeding device. The running mode is flexible, and also fit to treat carbon-containing waste.

The invention discloses a method for coproduction of 5-hydroxymethyl furfural, an acetylpropionic acid and a formic acid through high-temperature catalysis and dehydration of the formic acid of glucose. The method specifically comprises the following steps: firstly, establishment of a formic acid reaction system, namely the glucose is added into the formic acid solution, and the weight ratio of the glucose to the formic acid in the reaction system is 0.05-0.2 to 1; and the mixture is reacted for 2 to 6 hours in the presence of the catalyst at a temperature of between 120 and 220 DEG C which is higher than the boiling temperature of the formic acid, and the reaction system is single-phase reaction or biphase reaction; and secondly, separation of products after reaction by a fractionating tower device, namely graded separation of 5-HMF, LA and the formic acid. The method can convert the glucose into the products, namely the 5-HMF, the LA and the formic acid with high added values through effective acid catalysis and dehydration, and has high conversion of reactant during the reaction process and obvious economic benefit; and the 5-HMF, the LA and the formic acid can be directly taken as chemical products to be further converted, and are good raw materials for synthesizing other chemical products.

A CHP optimal dispatching model is a mixed integer programming model and is used for a district heating system (DHS) comprising a heat source, a heating network and a heat load, and the heating network comprises a heat transmission network and a heat distribution network. A plurality of heating areas is divided, and one day is divided into a plurality of time periods; the heat transmission loss of the heat distribution network is omitted, and a heat transmission network model taking transmission time delay of the heating network into consideration is established according to the heat transmission network; a terminal heat consumer model capable of reflecting indoor temperature is established; and a combined optimal dispatching model comprising conventional generators, wind power units, CHP units, electric boilers and heat storage tanks is established.

The invention relates to a system and a method for saving energy and shaving the peak by coordinating a cogeneration set and a wind energy generator set. The system comprises the cogeneration set, the wind energy generator set, a conditioner heat pump, an electric energy meter, a radiator, a heat consumption gauge, and a scheduling control device, wherein the scheduling control device is used for acquiring fuel consumption, generated output and heating output of the cogeneration set, generated output of the wind energy generator set, electric power consumption of heating of the conditioner heat pump, a scheduling control signal of the heating load of the radiator in the electric load trough period according to detected electivity consumption data and heating and heat consumption data, and controlling the cogeneration set, the wind energy generator set, the conditioner heat pump, and the radiator to run according to the scheduling control signal. Through the system and the method, the distribution of the generated output of each of the cogeneration set and the wind energy generator set is optimized so as to reduce the total energy consumption, save energy and solve the problems of the forced shutdown and the waste of abandoning electricity of the wind energy generator set in the electric load trough period of the power grid.

An air flow regulation system for enhancing the performance of oxidation catalyst in the exhaust stream of an internal combustion engine is provided wherein air flow into the exhaust upstream of an oxidation catalyst is dynamically controlled via a controlled feedback loop to ensure sufficient oxygen availability to induce enhanced oxidation catalyst performance while simultaneously limiting the exhaust cooling effect of the incoming air stream and the associated loss of catalytic conversion performance. The modulation of air temperature and flow into the exhaust gas stream of a reciprocating internal combustion natural gas fuel engine upstream of an oxidation catalyst is regulated such that oxidation of carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and ammonia is achieved to a level beyond the levels attainable and maintainable with a catalyst strategy that relies only upon pre-combustion air/fuel ratio management. In one aspect, the modulation of air flow into the exhaust is via an electronically controlled feedback loop. In another aspect, the induced air is heated to assure catalyst performance and retard the loss of recoverable heat from the exhaust stream for combined heat and power applications.

The invention relates to a method and apparatus for using solar energy to enhance the efficiency of a compressed air energy storage system (and visa-versa). The apparatus comprises a photovoltaic panel to drive a compressor, which provides compressed air energy into an inner vessel housed within a storage tank. Two solar receiving panels are used to heat water which can be circulated and stored within an annulus surrounding the inner vessel, wherein the heated water can help regulate the temperature of the compressed air within the tank. This way, when air is released using a turbo expander, any excess temperature drops that can otherwise result from air expansion can be avoided. The overall system efficiency is enhanced by the chilled air by-product of the turbo expander which is used to generate more electrical power from an associated fuel-driven generator set, and/or by the waste heat from the compressor and from the generator set exhaust which is used in a Combined Heat and Power system (CHP) to power either a steam-driven generator set or an absorption chiller.

The invention provides a comprehensive processing technology of organic wastes, belonging to the technical field of environmental protection, and in particular relates to resourcing comprehensive processing technology of organic wastes. The invention comprises the following steps: a. preparing materials: placing liquid or solid organic wastes into different storing tanks; b. pretreating: crashingthe organic wastes to particles with the granuality of being equal to or less than 30 mm, conveying the well-crashed materials into a stackretting tank for stackretting; c. mixing and matching variousorganic wastes and process water, wherein, the carbon nitrogen ratio (C/N) of the materials is 20-30:1, and the concentration of TS is 30%-35%; d. adding the inoculum, adopting high temperature dry anaerobic fermentation to carry out anaerobic fermentation on pretreated materials; and e. manufacturing from the biogas residues generated in step d into efficient multifungus composite ecological organic fertilizer, backflowing the generated biogas liquid to adjust the state of the anaerobic fermentation system or ensure the biogas liquid to enter the aerobic composting process flow, and introducing the generated biogas to a thermoelectricity cogeneration unit to provide electrical energy and thermal energy required by the process system. In the invention, composite microorganism agent and biogas residues and other base stocks are adopted for composite preparation, thus greatly improving fertilizer efficiency, lowering cost, having effects of diversification of nutrients, stable fertilizer efficiency and non pollution, and being suitable for being applied for various crops.