Waste Heat to Power Market Assessment

Elson, Amelia; Tidball, Rick; Hampson, Anne

doi:10.2172/1185773

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“…In some cases, this heat can be reused to generate power or used in industrial processes. There are currently 12 power generation systems, totaling 64 MW of electricity capacity, installed at natural gas compressor stations in the United States (Elson, Tidball and Hampson 2015). An estimated 40 MW worth of potential additional projects currently offer expected paybacks of less than 5 years (Elson, Tidball and Hampson 2015).…”

Section: Compressor Heat Recoverymentioning

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“…There are currently 12 power generation systems, totaling 64 MW of electricity capacity, installed at natural gas compressor stations in the United States (Elson, Tidball and Hampson 2015). An estimated 40 MW worth of potential additional projects currently offer expected paybacks of less than 5 years (Elson, Tidball and Hampson 2015). However, changes in market conditions could significantly increase the economic opportunity for compression station heat recovery.…”

Section: Compressor Heat Recoverymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, changes in market conditions could significantly increase the economic opportunity for compression station heat recovery. Estimates of the technical potential for electricity generated from compressor station heat recovery range from 500 MW (Hedman 2008) to 1.1 GW (Elson, Tidball and Hampson 2015). As economies of scale are present, large systems with high utilization rates are most applicable (Hedman 2008).…”

Section: Compressor Heat Recoverymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Engel-Cox

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“…A 2015 report from Oak Ridge National Labs (ORNL) (Elson et al, 2015) predicts an installed cost for ORC systems between 50 and 500 kW capacity of 4500 $/kW. ElectraTherm quotes turnkey prices for three of their ORC modules ranging from 35 kW to 110 kW.…”

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An Alaska case study: Organic Rankine cycle technology

Loeffler

Whitney

2017

Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy

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Organic Rankine cycle (ORC) technology is mature for larger-scale power generation, but ORC systems appropriate for smaller-capacity generators, typical of Alaska village and other Arctic community power plants, are still new to the market or in the prototype phase. Many villages are being approached by product developers to invest in this new technology, and there is a significant value in the dissemination of the real world performance and costs of existing systems. In this analysis of ORC installations across Alaska, capacity factors ranged from 33% to 52%. Low utilization levels are attributed to insufficient waste heat resources (in Unalaska and Cordova) and to higher than expected maintenance costs in a prototype pre-commercial model (in Tok). Significant annual fuel savings have been realized for each installation, with annual demonstrated savings of $70 000 in Unalaska and projected annual savings of over $300 000 in Cordova. Modifying existing generation for an ORC system has proven to be challenging and expensive. Project cost data indicate that Alaska projects should expect total capital expenditures to be two to three times the cost of the ORC unit itself. Some systems have been highly reliable and cost-effective, while other installations have been neither. The most cost effective ORC system may be best implemented with a ground-up new generator design and install. Of the installations in Alaska, only the Unalaska Green Machines have achieved reliable operation beyond a few weeks. The smallest reliable system, which operates in Unalaska, has a 50 kW nameplate capacity and requires 500 kW of waste heat, indicating that this technology is best suited for communities with 1 MW or more of diesel generation.

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“…It should be noted however that the laws of nature do not dictate an upper limit on the performance metric of thermoelectric materials, and thus this technology is capable of achieving one third of the Carnot efficiency, deemed the definition of a practical system. 1 Many promising material systems may lead to breakthroughs in efficiency including mesoporous materials, [2][3][4] new phases of solid-state synthesized materials, [5][6][7][8][9][10] and possibly topologically insulating materials. [11][12][13] However, experimental observations are rare and controversial as there is a wide degree of uncertainty arising from the current use of disparate measurement techniques on different samples, which erodes confidence and obfuscates material design efforts.…”

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Uncertainty analysis of axial temperature and Seebeck coefficient measurements

Yazdani

Kim

Pettes

2018

Review of Scientific Instruments

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Experimental investigations of solid materials at elevated temperatures rely on the optimized thermal design of the measurement system, as radiation becomes a predominant source of heat loss which can lead to large uncertainty in measured temperature and related physical properties of a test sample. Advancements in surface temperature measurements have reduced thermal losses arising from the cold-finger effect using axially inserted thermocouples and from radiation using shields or other thermal guards. The leading technology for temperature sensing at temperatures up to ∼900 °C makes use of these design features for measuring thermopower, yet uncertainty analysis estimation of this technique is not known. This work makes use of finite element modeling to determine spatial temperature distributions to obtain the upper limit of confidence expected for the axially inserted thermocouple approach when a heated radiation shield is incorporated into the design. Using an axially inserted thermocouple to measure the sample surface temperature, the temperature variations across the sample hot and cold surfaces at 900 °C for a temperature drop of 0, 5, and 10 °C are calculated to be as low as 0.02, 0.21, and 0.41 °C, respectively, when a heated radiation shield is employed. Uniform temperature distribution on the thermocouple cross-wire geometry indicates that the axial thermocouple measurement design is indeed effective for suppressing the cold-finger effect. Using a heated radiation shield is found to significantly reduce the temperature gradient across the thermocouples.

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Waste Heat to Power Market Assessment

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Approaches for Integrating Renewable Energy Technologies in Oil and Gas Operations

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Uncertainty analysis of axial temperature and Seebeck coefficient measurements

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