Due to the importance of energy consumption in a steam network of oil refinery as a significant unit, present study is concerned with the optimization of an oil refinery steam network. Here, the attempt was made to use concepts such as first and second thermodynamic laws, thermo-economic, environmental and economic discussions to investigate three different scenarios about Tehran refinery steam...

production of highly viscous tar sand bitumen using steam assisted gravity drainage (sagd) with a pair of horizontal wells has advantages over conventional steam flooding. this paper explores the use of artificial neural networks (anns) as an alternative to the traditional sagd simulation approach. feed forward, multi-layered neural network meta-models are trained through the back-error-propaga...

Production of highly viscous tar sand bitumen using Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) with a pair of horizontal wells has advantages over conventional steam flooding. This paper explores the use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) as an alternative to the traditional SAGD simulation approach. Feed forward, multi-layered neural network meta-models are trained through the Back-...

Steam is a key energy vector for industrial sites, most commonly used for process heating and cooling, cogeneration of heat and mechanical power as a motive fluid or for stripping. Steam networks are used to carry steam from producers to consumers and between pressure levels through letdowns and steam turbines. The steam producers (boilers, heat and power cogeneration units, heat exchangers, ch...

This paper introduces a kind of diagnosis principle and learning algorithm of steam turbine fault diagnosis which based on Elman neural network. Comparing the results of the Elman neural network and the traditional BP neural network diagnosis, the results shows that Elman neural network is an effective way to improve the learning speed , effectively suppress the minimum defects that the traditi...

SHAHAB is a PC- based simulator developed by Olefin Research Group (ORG), with the simultaneous simulation of the reactor, the firebox, the convection section and the transfer line exchanger in steam Cracking units. The reaction mechanism of thermal cracking of hydrocarbons is generally accepted as free-radical chain reactions. Using a rigorous kinetic model, a complete reaction network for rep...

Thermal cracking of a heavy liquid hydrocarbon was performed in a laboratory scale tubular reactor. Central Composite Design (CCD), was used as an experimental design method. The design variables were Coil Outlet Temperature (COT), feed flow and rate steam ratio. Maximum yield of ethylene was 30.37 wt% at COT, residence time and steam ratio of 869oC, 0.208 s and 1.22 g/g, respect...

Most of the advanced integrated energy systems need a heat recovery steam cycle (HRSC), either fired or unfired, that recovers the waste heat from gas turbines and process units in order to generate electric power and supply mechanical power to compressors, heat to endothermic processes, and steam to external users. The key feature of such HRSCs is the integration between the heat recovery stea...

A computer program is developed to simulate steam flow in a pipeline as a part of “GeoSteamNet: a computer package for the simulation of steam flow in a geothermal power plant network”. The fluid movement is governed by the following basic principles: the conservation of mass, the linear momentum principle (Newton’s second law or Navier Stokes equations) and the first and second laws of thermod...

thermal cracking of a heavy liquid hydrocarbon was performed in a laboratory scale tubular reactor. central composite design (ccd), was used as an experimental design method. the design variables were coil outlet temperature (cot), feed flow and rate steam ratio. maximum yield of ethylene was 30.37 wt% at cot, residence time and steam ratio of 869oc, 0.208 s and 1.22 g/g, respectively. maximum ...