Author:Engelbrecht, AD; North, Brian C; Hadley, TDDate:Nov 2008Electricity demand in South Africa is increasing at a rate of 1000 MW per year. Whilst there is increasing pressure to adopt non-fossil fuel electricity generating technologies, the abundant reserves and low cost of coal make it the preferred ...Read more
Author:Madzivhandila, VA; Majozi, T; Zhelev, TDate:Sep 2010Pinch analysis was used in this work to exploit the amount of energy available within integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plants. This work focuses on the steam path (subsystem) of IGCC power plants only. A case study on the ...Read more
Author:Madzivhandila, VA; Majozi, T; Zhelev, TKDate:Mar 2011Recovery of low potential energy of flue gases, mainly from industrial boilers, has become one of the problems of interest in research. In this work, the contact economizer system is used to recover low potential heat from the gas turbine ...Read more