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Advanced Energy Harvesting from Macroalgae—Innovative Integration of Drying, Gasification and Combined Cycle

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  • Muhammad Aziz

    (Solutions Research Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan)

  • Takuya Oda

    (Solutions Research Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan)

  • Takao Kashiwagi

    (Solutions Research Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan)

Abstract

State-of-the-art integrated macroalgae utilization processes, consisting of drying, gasification, and combined cycle, are proposed and their performance with respect to energy efficiency are evaluated. To achieve high exergy efficiency, the integration is performed through two main principles: exergy recovery and process integration. Initially, the energy involved in one process is recirculated intensively through exergy elevation and effective heat coupling. Furthermore, the unrecoverable energy from one process will be utilized in the other processes through process integration. As the result, the total exergy destruction from the whole integrated processes can be minimized significantly leading to significant improvement in energy efficiency. The first analysis relates to the performance of integrated drying process, especially the influence of target moisture content to energy consumption. Furthermore, the influences of gasification fluidization velocity to the total generated power and power generation efficiency are also calculated. As the results of study, the proposed integrated-processes proved a very high energy efficiency. A positive energy harvesting with the total power generation efficiency of about 40% could be achieved.

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  • Muhammad Aziz & Takuya Oda & Takao Kashiwagi, 2014. "Advanced Energy Harvesting from Macroalgae—Innovative Integration of Drying, Gasification and Combined Cycle," Energies, MDPI, vol. 7(12), pages 1-19, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:7:y:2014:i:12:p:8217-8235:d:43362
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