design optimization of a natural gas substation with intensification of the energy cycle优化设计的天然气变电站与强化的能量周期.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2010, Article ID 294102, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2010/294102 Research Article Design Optimization of a Natural Gas Substation with Intensification of the Energy Cycle Arcangelo Pellegrino and Francesco Villecco Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Salerno, Via Ponte Don Melillo, 84084 Fisciano, Italy Correspondence should be addressed to Francesco Villecco, fvillecco@unisa.it Received 9 March 2010; Accepted 3 September 2010 Academic Editor: Carlo Cattani Copyright q 2010 A. Pellegrino and F. Villecco. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Natural gas is currently the natural substitute of petroleum as an energy source, since the foreseen ending up of this latter in the next decades. As a matter of fact, natural gas is easier to handle, less dangerous to be transported, somehow environmentally more friendly. The gas ducts operate with large flow rates over very long distances at high pressures, which are usually lowered in proximity of the final substations by lamination valves which, in fact, dissipate energy. However, a careful management of the pressure reduction may allow an energy recovery while using the gas expansion to operate a turbine. In this case, gas must be preheated to compensate for the energy required by the expansion. A proper control of all the parameters involved becomes crucial to an intelligent use of these resources. In this paper, the possibility of using a pre-heating system has been examined as a way to intensify the energy cycle in an expansion