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Thermoeconomic Comparative Analyses of Different Approaches Used for Specific Carbon Dioxide Emission Reduction in Gas Turbine Power Plants

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Multiple reports indicate the considerable rate of growth in world’s energy demands. With the ongoing concerns about climate change and the considerable contribution of power generation industry in carbon dioxide emission, it is necessary to reduce the rate of carbon dioxide emission from power generation systems, immediately. In this chapter, three different approaches for a simple gas turbine power plant carbon dioxide emission reduction are recommended. The proposed methods include inlet air cooling with a mechanical chiller, steam bottoming cycle integration, and hybridization of power plants using heliostat field collector. Steam bottoming cycle implementation reduces the plant-specific CO2 emission by about 212–217 kgCO2/MWh (34–35%). Moreover, it is concluded that inlet air cooling technique manages to achieve improvement in both environmental and economic aspects of the plant even in a small-scale power generation system. Furthermore, hybridization is the most expensive approach considered in this study.

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Saghafifar, M., Gadalla, M. (2018). Thermoeconomic Comparative Analyses of Different Approaches Used for Specific Carbon Dioxide Emission Reduction in Gas Turbine Power Plants. In: Nižetić, S., Papadopoulos, A. (eds) The Role of Exergy in Energy and the Environment. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89845-2_7

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