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Article Citation - WoS: 8Citation - Scopus: 11Design, Thermodynamic and Economic Evaluation, and Optimization of Gasoline Production From Refinery Furnaces Flue Gas(Elsevier, 2023) Nazerifard, Reza; Mohammadpourfard, Mousa; Heris, Saeed ZeinaliIn this paper, the conversion of refinery furnaces’ flue gas into gasoline through the MTG process is investigated. This approach not only reduces greenhouse gas emissions, but also produces a high-value product, providing economic incentives to adopt this technology. The proposed integrated system comprises an organic Rankine cycle, an amine-based carbon capture unit, a methanol synthesis unit, and an MTG unit. In this study, we evaluated the technical and economic aspects of this conversion process, including the thermodynamic and cost analysis, to assess its viability as a sustainable solution for mitigating CO2 emissions from refineries. Also, using response surface methodology combined with the Box-Behnken design, the proposed integrated system was optimized to minimize the gasoline production cost. The thermodynamic assessment concludes that the energy and exergy efficiencies of the overall system are 73.12% and 85.24%, respectively. The proposed system yields an annual gasoline production rate of >184 million liters. The estimated total capital investment for the proposed system is 172.16 M$, which the methanol synthesis unit with a share of 48.65% is the most expensive one. The results give a gasoline production cost of 1.58 $/kg or 4.28 $/gal for the optimized case. Also, hydrogen has the highest contribution in the production cost, so with a 20% decrease in the price of hydrogen, the production cost of gasoline decreases by 18.71%. With this rate of technological improvement, reductions in the price of hydrogen seem inevitable in not-so-distant years, which makes the proposed system of converting refinery furnaces’ flue gas into gasoline became desirable. © 2023 Elsevier LtdBook Part Citation - Scopus: 4Investigation of a New Methanol, Hydrogen, and Electricity Production System Based on Carbon Capture and Utilization(Springer, 2023) Khani, Leyla; Mohammadpourfard, MousaIt is well-known that clean energy transition requires low carbon emission. The increase in population, economic development, and human welfare demands has led to a rise in energy consumption, mainly supplied by fossil fuels. However, burning fossil fuels produces carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas and a contributor to environmental problems. Therefore, carbon capture and conversion to different products have gained attention. On the other hand, combining two or more different thermodynamic systems for simultaneous production of various demands from one energy source looks reasonable. In this regard, a new trigeneration system is proposed to decrease atmospheric carbon dioxide emission and produce methanol, hydrogen, and power. A flue gas stream with a defined composition, solar energy, and atmospheric air are the system’s inlets. Then, mass, energy, and exergy balance equations are applied for each subsystem to investigate the system’s thermodynamic performance. Also, the effect of changing operating parameters on the performance of each subsystem is studied. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.Article Citation - WoS: 7Citation - Scopus: 7Comprehensive Thermoeconomic Study of a New Solar Thermosyphon-Assisted Multigeneration System(Elsevier, 2023) Anamaq, Rasoul Najafi; Khani, Leyla; Mohammadpourfard, Mousa; Heris, Saeed Zeinali; Gökçen Akkurt, GüldenNowadays, due to the global energy crisis, limited reservoirs of fossil fuels, and their negative environmental effects, the use of renewable energy sources and multigeneration systems have become good alternatives for conventional thermodynamic systems. One of these resources, whose technology has developed rapidly in recent years, is the use of solar energy for the simultaneous generation of various products. Therefore, in this research, a multigeneration system with several subsystems is introduced. The proposed system includes a solar energy collector to receive thermal energy, two thermal energy storage tanks, an organic Rankine cycle, and a Kalina cycle to generate electricity, a multi-effect distillation unit to produce fresh water, an electrolyzer to produce hydrogen, as well as heat recovery for hot water and hot air generation. In this multigeneration system, the cooling unit is designed with the help of a thermosyphon. The performance of the proposed system is studied from energy, exergy, environmental, and exergoeconomic viewpoints using Aspen HYSYS and EES software. The obtained results show that due to the addition of the thermosyphon unit to the refrigeration system, the exergy efficiency increases from 55.62% to 70.26%. As a result of this combination, the performance of the whole system is improved and the amount of costs are reduced. In addition, the parabolic collector system has the highest exergy destruction ratio, 39%, among the subsystems. Furthermore, the results of the exergoeconomic analysis indicate that the PEM water heater with 33.3% and the ejector with 22.7% own the highest cost destruction rates.Article Citation - WoS: 49Citation - Scopus: 51Energy, Exergy, Exergoeconomic, and Exergoenvironmental (4e) Analysis of a New Bio-Waste Driven Multigeneration System for Power, Heating, Hydrogen, and Freshwater Production: Modeling and a Case Study in Izmir(Elsevier, 2023) Tabriz, Zahra Hajimohammadi; Mohammadpourfard, Mousa; Gökçen Akkurt, Gülden; Heris, Saeed ZeinaliToday, the world is facing numerous challenges such as the increasing demand for energy, fossil fuels reduction, the growth of atmospheric pollutants, and the water crisis. In the present research, a new multigeneration system based on urban sewage bio-waste has been designed and evaluated for power, hydrogen, freshwater, and heating production. This system, which consists of biomass conversion subsystem, hydrogen production unit, Brayton cycle, atmospheric water harvesting unit, steam Rankine cycle, and organic Rankine cycles, has been evaluated from a thermodynamic point of view, and the energy, exergy, exergoeconomic, and exergoenvironmental analyses have been carried out on it. In the current study, the atmospheric water harvesting unit, as an attractive and environmentally friendly technology, is integrated with this Biomass-based multigeneration. A case study has been conducted on this system using the information collected from cigli wastewater treatment plant located In Izmir province, Turkey, and the results indicate that such a system, in addition to receiving sewage sludge from the treatment plant unit as a polluting waste, can produce added value products. The modeling results show that in the base conditions and with a feed rate of 7.52 kg/s, the total power generated by this system is 17750 kW, the hydrogen production rate is 3180 kg/h, the freshwater production rate is more than 18 l/h, and the energy and exergy efficiencies are 35.48% and 40.18%, respectively. According to the exergoeconomic and exergoenvironmental evaluations, the unit cost of total products and the unit emission of carbon dioxide are calculated as 13.05 $/GJ and 0.2327 t/MWh, respectively. Also, the results of parametric studies show that increasing the rate of Biomass improves the overall energy efficiency and production rates and also reduces the unit emission of carbon dioxide, but on the other hand, it causes a decrease in exergy efficiency and an increase in the unit cost of total products.Article Citation - WoS: 26Citation - Scopus: 25Biomass Driven Polygeneration Systems: a Review of Recent Progress and Future Prospects(Elsevier, 2023) Tabriz, Zahra Hajimohammadi; Khani, Leyla; Mohammadpourfard, Mousa; Gökçen Akkurt, GüldenBiomass is the most widely used renewable energy source which is highly appreciated due to its high availability and non-intermittent nature. Considering problems such as reduction of fossil fuels, global warming, and emission of greenhouse gases, lack of attention to the existing situation may cause irreversible damage to the future of the planet. In addition to using renewable energy sources, improving the efficiency of systems will also be helpful. Polygeneration systems play an important role in increasing efficiency and reducing pollution. So, the use of biomass in polygeneration systems seems to be a great approach for sustainable development. Recent studies on biomass-based polygeneration systems have focused on how to use biomass and integrate diverse subsystems to achieve the best performance from energy and exergy viewpoints. The present paper reviews biomass-based systems, and the parameters affecting the performance of these systems. The literature review shows that the high exergy destruction rate in the gasifiers is the most frequent problem among recent articles. In addition, despite the advantages of anaerobic digestion process, the number of studies conducted on the use of this method for biomass conversion is small. In the end, results, limitations, and future outlooks of these systems are discussed.Article Citation - WoS: 19Citation - Scopus: 20Multi-Objective Optimization of a Novel Supercritical Co2 Cycle-Based Combined Cycle for Solar Power Tower Plants Integrated With Sofc and Lng Cold Energy and Regasification(Wiley, 2022) Taheri, Muhammad Hadi; Khani, Leyla; Mohammadpourfard, Mousa; Aminfar, Habib; Gökçen Akkurt, GüldenThis study presents a new system for solar power, which is generated through a solar power tower with a molten salt cycle. To increase the consumption of energy losses, besides the closed supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) Brayton cycle, a liquid natural gas (LNG) open-cycle was used as a heat sink alongside a cascade organic Rankine cycle with the capability of working at low temperatures. LNG is implemented for a solid oxide fuel cell input, after cooling down the power generation systems and power generation. Besides the economic and thermodynamic analysis, destruction of exergy has been controlled and parametric studies are performed to investigate the influence of relative factors on the performance of the system. To optimize the system, a genetics algorithm has been employed by considering two reciprocal objective functions of the total cost rate and the exergy efficiency. The results of multi-objective optimization show that the optimized point has a total product cost rate of $115.3/h and an exergy efficiency of 71%. Furthermore, exergy analysis shows that the molten salt heat exchangers and the LNG heat exchangers have the maximum rates of irreversibility and must be taken into consideration as a major priority for optimization.