Modern Integrated Equipment as Higher Level of Process Integration for Waste Gas-to-Energy Processes

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The ongoing COVID-19 crisis contributes to raising society's awareness of the impact of global climate change, resulting in strategies oriented towards the development of sustainable energy and production systems and technologies neutral in greenhouse gas emissions to achieve guaranteed access to affordable, safe, sustainable and modern energy for all as well as sustainable production of products for life. There are significant efforts to further reduce energy consumption, emissions, and waste production in the process industry, along with intensive efforts to make more efficient use or disposal of the waste produced. Utilization and development of process integration methods helps significantly in rethinking current and future industrial and process systems. In some specific sectors of the process industry, this development leads to the design and realization of processes with a significantly higher level of integrated design than is common in today's latest operated integrated processes. This trend can be simply called as "integration in integration" or “implementation of modern integrated equipment”. The modern integrated equipment (MIE) is generally characterized by maximum efficiency and multifunctionality (i.e. multiple unit operations are aggregated into a single apparatus). This reduces the process technology to the minimum number of present apparatuses, i.e. to the few MIE, and thus reduces both investment and operating costs. Such highly integrated technology also works as a whole more efficiently and more environmentally friendly. Processes for thermal processing of waste gas (WG) containing combustible substances – shortly “waste gas-to-energy” (WGtE) processes – are undergoing significant progress in design and implementation of MIE especially due to the fact that the process technology consists a quite small number of process equipment with their specific placing in technology according to the kind and amount of WG disposed. We are researching the opportunities of MIE for WGtE processes within the research project “Strategic Partnership for Environmental Technologies and Energy Production”. The aim of our contribution is to present the main results of our research together with the specific opportunities and challenges that the development of MIE for WGtE units brings. Depending on the kind and amount of WG disposed, a several progressive design concepts of MIE is recognized. Some of them have already been successfully implemented industrially by our research consortium and some of them are currently in development. The essential MIE design implementation and opportunities will be introduced in the contribution.

The ongoing COVID-19 crisis contributes to raising society's awareness of the impact of global climate change, resulting in strategies oriented towards the development of sustainable energy and production systems and technologies neutral in greenhouse gas emissions to achieve guaranteed access to affordable, safe, sustainable and modern energy for all as well as sustainable production of products for life. There are significant efforts to further reduce energy consumption, emissions, and waste production in the process industry, along with intensive efforts to make more efficient use or disposal of the waste produced. Utilization and development of process integration methods helps significantly in rethinking current and future industrial and process systems. In some specific sectors of the process industry, this development leads to the design and realization of processes with a significantly higher level of integrated design than is common in today's latest operated integrated processes. This trend can be simply called as "integration in integration" or “implementation of modern integrated equipment”. The modern integrated equipment (MIE) is generally characterized by maximum efficiency and multifunctionality (i.e. multiple unit operations are aggregated into a single apparatus). This reduces the process technology to the minimum number of present apparatuses, i.e. to the few MIE, and thus reduces both investment and operating costs. Such highly integrated technology also works as a whole more efficiently and more environmentally friendly. Processes for thermal processing of waste gas (WG) containing combustible substances – shortly “waste gas-to-energy” (WGtE) processes – are undergoing significant progress in design and implementation of MIE especially due to the fact that the process technology consists a quite small number of process equipment with their specific placing in technology according to the kind and amount of WG disposed. We are researching the opportunities of MIE for WGtE processes within the research project “Strategic Partnership for Environmental Technologies and Energy Production”. The aim of our contribution is to present the main results of our research together with the specific opportunities and challenges that the development of MIE for WGtE units brings. Depending on the kind and amount of WG disposed, a several progressive design concepts of MIE is recognized. Some of them have already been successfully implemented industrially by our research consortium and some of them are currently in development. The essential MIE design implementation and opportunities will be introduced in the contribution.

modern integrated equipment; integrated design; waste gas-to-energy processes; process integration

20.11.2020

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