Installation of an axial Pump-as-Turbine (PaT) in a wastewater sewer of an oil refinery: A case study
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216305%3A26210%2F19%3APU134558" target="_blank" >RIV/00216305:26210/19:PU134558 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261919309055" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261919309055</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.05.052" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.05.052</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Installation of an axial Pump-as-Turbine (PaT) in a wastewater sewer of an oil refinery: A case study
Original language description
This paper analyses an energy recovery solution based on the Pump-as-Turbine (PaT) technology applied in an oil refinery. Since under-ground water might be contaminated by the chemical processes, an intervention named “Pump & Treat” was adopted in the studied oil refinery to reclaim the installation site and to safeguard the zones nearby. After the groundwater’s treatment is performed by a specific water treatment plant, part of the wastewater is discharged, by gravity, into the sea through a sewer. In this work, the installation of an Axial Flow Pump (AFP) is studied for a branch of the wastewater sewer and its use as turbine for energy recovery purposes is evaluated. Knowing both flow rate and available head inside the sewer, which were used as Best Efficiency Point (BEP) values, a proper axial PaT design was identified in the ANSYS® Workbench and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations of the axial PaT design were performed in both pump and turbine modes. The obtained results were used to scale down the hydraulic machine and the new scaled axial PaT was simulated and analysed in detail by means of steady CFD simulations. The characteristic curves as well as the efficiency ones of the PaT are reported and an insight of the internal fluid flow is carried out. Finally, the installation of the designed PaT was analysed and discussed from both technical and economic points of views, allowing to achieve an economic saving of about 1706 €/year that lead to a PayBack Period (PBP) of about 1 year and 10 months.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
20301 - Mechanical engineering
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LTARF18019" target="_blank" >LTARF18019: Design of hydraulic sources for energy recuperation</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
APPLIED ENERGY
ISSN
0306-2619
e-ISSN
1872-9118
Volume of the periodical
250
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2019-09-15
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
1-12
UT code for WoS article
000482244000054
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85065409461