Energy recovery in water networks: numerical decision support tool for optimal site and selection of micro turbines

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Autor(a) principal: Coelho, Bernardete
Data de Publicação: 2018
Outros Autores: Andrade-Campos, António
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/27564
Resumo: Energy efficiency plays a large role in the sustainability effort of water utilities. In gravity-fed pipe networks that present excessive pressures, the installation of micro turbines or pumps-as-turbines for energy recovery can provide significant benefits. The main obstacles associated with this kind of solution include the high cost of implementation (equipment and installation) and the time-consuming task of searching for potential and feasible sites for the power plant implementation. In this work, a numerical methodology for the analysis of any water supply and distribution network in order to optimally locate sites for maximum energy recovery and to preliminarily select or design turbines is proposed and validated with a case study. The idea of this decision support tool is to facilitate the assessment of the potential for energy production in networks and encourage the implementation of this type of efficiency measure. The proposed approach consists of two main stages: (1) identification of potential sites for energy recovery through an optimization procedure and (2) selection of adequate types of turbine and preliminary feasibility analysis.
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title Energy recovery in water networks: numerical decision support tool for optimal site and selection of micro turbines
spellingShingle Energy recovery in water networks: numerical decision support tool for optimal site and selection of micro turbines
Coelho, Bernardete
Energy recovery
EPANET
Micro hydro turbines
Site location
Turbine selection
Water supply and distribution
title_short Energy recovery in water networks: numerical decision support tool for optimal site and selection of micro turbines
title_full Energy recovery in water networks: numerical decision support tool for optimal site and selection of micro turbines
title_fullStr Energy recovery in water networks: numerical decision support tool for optimal site and selection of micro turbines
title_full_unstemmed Energy recovery in water networks: numerical decision support tool for optimal site and selection of micro turbines
title_sort Energy recovery in water networks: numerical decision support tool for optimal site and selection of micro turbines
author Coelho, Bernardete
author_facet Coelho, Bernardete
Andrade-Campos, António
author_role author
author2 Andrade-Campos, António
author2_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Coelho, Bernardete
Andrade-Campos, António
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Energy recovery
EPANET
Micro hydro turbines
Site location
Turbine selection
Water supply and distribution
topic Energy recovery
EPANET
Micro hydro turbines
Site location
Turbine selection
Water supply and distribution
description Energy efficiency plays a large role in the sustainability effort of water utilities. In gravity-fed pipe networks that present excessive pressures, the installation of micro turbines or pumps-as-turbines for energy recovery can provide significant benefits. The main obstacles associated with this kind of solution include the high cost of implementation (equipment and installation) and the time-consuming task of searching for potential and feasible sites for the power plant implementation. In this work, a numerical methodology for the analysis of any water supply and distribution network in order to optimally locate sites for maximum energy recovery and to preliminarily select or design turbines is proposed and validated with a case study. The idea of this decision support tool is to facilitate the assessment of the potential for energy production in networks and encourage the implementation of this type of efficiency measure. The proposed approach consists of two main stages: (1) identification of potential sites for energy recovery through an optimization procedure and (2) selection of adequate types of turbine and preliminary feasibility analysis.
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