@inproceedings{5f3adbb9b2e74767b9434d6737fb38ad,
title = "Opportunities for energy efficiency enhancements in the oil and gas industry using waste heat powered absorption chillers",
abstract = "The oil and gas industry is under increasing pressure to improve the efficiency of its energy-intensive oil and gas processing operations, through improved energy utilization and waste heat recovery. This paper explores the use of waste heat-powered absorption cooling to boost the efficiency of natural gas (NG) processing, enhance hydrocarbon recovery and reduce utility cost in a NG plant. A thermodynamic analysis of a gas turbine waste heat-powered double-effect H2O-LiBr absorption chiller in an integrated NG plant is presented. It is found that waste heat recuperated from the turbine exhaust gases could be used to provide enhanced process cooling capacity to the NG plant through absorption cooling. The results suggest that a double-effect LiBr absorption chiller utilizing 34.6 MW of gas turbine exhaust heat could provide 45 MW of cooling at 5°C. This could save approximately 9 MW of electric energy required by a typical compression chiller while providing an equivalent amount of cooling.",
author = "Sahil Popli and Peter Rodgers and Valerie Eveloy and Hashimi, {Saleh A.L.} and Reinhard Radermacher and Yunho Hwang",
year = "2010",
language = "British English",
isbn = "9781617820434",
series = "Society of Petroleum Engineers - 14th Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference 2010, ADIPEC 2010",
pages = "2288--2297",
booktitle = "Society of Petroleum Engineers - 14th Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference 2010, ADIPEC 2010",
note = "14th Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference 2010, ADIPEC 2010 ; Conference date: 01-11-2010 Through 04-11-2010",
}
