Renewable Energy, ( ISI ), Volume (81), No (1), Year (2015-9) , Pages (239-250)

Title : ( A new design for natural gas pressure reduction points by employing a turbo expander and a solar heating set )

Authors: Ahmad Arabkoohsar , Mahmood Farzaneh-Gord , Mahdi Deymi-Dashtebayaz , Luiz Machado , Ricardo Koury ,

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Abstract

Natural gas pressure reduction station (CGS) is one of the most important pieces in natural gas transmission system. In a CGS, the high inlet natural gas (NG) pressure has to be reduced down to a much lower value. Pressure reduction is usually implemented by utilizing throttling valves. Due to the positive JouleeThompson coefficient of NG, this pressure drop causes significant temperature fall and consequently forming in the NG stream. The hydrates may prevent stable NG flow through the pipeline. To prevent hydrate forming, the NG should be preheated by some heaters which burn huge amount of fuel. In this work, firstly, adding a solar heating system aiming to reduce the heater fuel consumption and secondly, replacing the throttling valve by a turbo expander in order to utilize the NG stream exergy are proposed. The proposed configuration is simulated for Birjand CGS as a case study. For the simulation, the locally available solar irradiation is estimated by employing solar engineering formulations and the NG availability is calculated by thermodynamics correlations. Net present value (NPV) method is also employed to analyze the proposed system effectiveness economically, resulting to only 3.5 years of pay back ratio.

Keywords

, CGS, NG, Turbo expander, Solar heating system, NPV
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@article{paperid:1070443,
author = {Ahmad Arabkoohsar and Farzaneh-Gord, Mahmood and Mahdi Deymi-Dashtebayaz and Luiz Machado and Ricardo Koury},
title = {A new design for natural gas pressure reduction points by employing a turbo expander and a solar heating set},
journal = {Renewable Energy},
year = {2015},
volume = {81},
number = {1},
month = {September},
issn = {0960-1481},
pages = {239--250},
numpages = {11},
keywords = {CGS; NG; Turbo expander; Solar heating system; NPV},
}

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%0 Journal Article
%T A new design for natural gas pressure reduction points by employing a turbo expander and a solar heating set
%A Ahmad Arabkoohsar
%A Farzaneh-Gord, Mahmood
%A Mahdi Deymi-Dashtebayaz
%A Luiz Machado
%A Ricardo Koury
%J Renewable Energy
%@ 0960-1481
%D 2015

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