The optimal design of a plate-fin recuperator of a 200-kW microturbine was studied in this paper. The exergy efficiency, pressure drop and total cost were selected as the three important objective functions of the recuperator. Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II) were respectively employed for single-objective and multi-objective optimizations. By opt...

In the framework of European Optimised Microturbine Solar Power system (OMSoP) project, a novel energy for solar electricity production was developed, based on integration dish technology with Micro Gas Turbines (MGT). A pilot plant capacity 5–7 kWe realized and installed at ENEA Casaccia site (Rome) went under testing to validate feasibility improve current design. The present work deals devel...

The pollution caused by gas flaring is hazardous to the health of flora, fauna, and humans settled around site. Gas also incurs economic loss as natural gas, an energy source, wasted in flares. Furthermore, unreliable electrical infrastructure a roadblock for oil companies attempting achieve their production targets. This paper presents framework design hybrid systems (HES) which utilize flare ...

Sudden change on earth’s climate, which is a result of an increase in CO2 in the atmosphere, is mainly caused by burning of fossil fuels for various energy services. However, for the energy services to be favourable to the environment, there should be a balance with the environmental protection, and we can call that “Sustainable Innovative Development”. “EXPLORE Polygeneration” initiative will ...

Regarding the advances in technology and anxieties around high and growing prices of fossil fuels, government incentives increase to produce cleaner and sustainable energy through distributed generations. This makes trends in the using microgrids which consist of electric demands and different distributed generations and energy storage systems. The optimum operation of microgrids with consideri...

To enhance the sustainability of water supply systems, development new technologies for micro scale hydropower remains an active field research. The present paper deals with implementation a micro-hydroelectric system drinking facilities, targeting gross capacity between 5 kW and 25 kW. A counter-rotating microturbine forms core element energy recovery system. modular in-line technology is supp...

The current study aimed at delving into the thermodynamic of a trigeneration cycle based on biomass fuel, combined with an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) and absorption chiller. Biomass fuel is purely produced from Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). Energy exergy analyses were carried out using solar collector employing optimized characteristics to provide required thermal energy ideal condition utilizi...

Abstract This work aims to present the development and testing of an innovative tool for surge prevention in advanced gas turbine cycles. The presence additional components, such as a saturator humid cycles, heat exchanger external combustor, solar receiver or fuel cell stack hybrid system, implies larger size volumes between compressor outlet recuperator expander inlet. large volume increases ...