Author:Gololo, V; Majozi, T; Zhelev, T; Semkov, KDate:2011Water cooling and water heating is an important source of energy consumption, accounting for more than 20% of all energy consumption in manufacturing industry. It is clear that the development of heat recycling schemes and better structural ...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, V; Majozi, T; Zhelev, TDate:Oct 2010In this work, the contact economizer system is used to recover low potential heat from the gas turbine exhaust (flue gas) stream of a heat integrated IGCC plant adopted from previous studies. Recovery of this heat was demonstrated to be capable ...Read more