scholarly journals Implementation of Energy Harvesting System of Wastes of Compressed Air Wastes for Electrical Steel Cutting Line

2019 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 01005
Author(s):  
Dominik Gryboś ◽  
Jacek S. Leszczyski
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Steel ◽  
Compressed Air ◽  
Operating Costs ◽  
Energy Losses ◽  
Production Plant ◽  
Manufacturing Plants ◽  
Industrial Plants ◽  
Cutting Line ◽  
Energy Harvesting System ◽  
Reducing Costs

The pneumatic systems are commonly used in industrial plants to power pneumatic machines and tools. However, since production of compressed air is quite expensive, manufacturing plants are trying to reduce the operating costs of pneumatic systems by improving their energy efficiency. There are three main methods of reducing costs in these systems: averting energy losses, limiting input energy and harvesting energy wastes of compressed air. In this article, the authors focus on the last method mentioned above - recovering energy wastes from cutting line of electrical steel in a production plant, by using their own invention. The maximum power Pe of the device is changing from 190 W to 60 W and it depends on the value of overpressure in the tank. In one hour, the device generates about 0.07 kWh energy and uses about 3.8 m3 of air in overpressure of 6 bar.

Active Pneumatic Road Rumble Energy Harvesting System

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melody Coffey ◽  
Raymond Dalke ◽  
Ryian Williams ◽  
Devyn Sutton ◽  
Jan Brink ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Kinetic Energy ◽  
Electric Energy ◽  
Compressed Air ◽  
Pneumatic System ◽  
Appreciable Amount ◽  
Energy Losses ◽  
The Road ◽  
Pneumatic Motor ◽  
Energy Harvesting System

Transportation vehicles traveling on busy roads and highways waste an appreciable amount of their kinetic energy. The lost energy dissipation is due to many factors such as: the friction due to braking, the friction of the tires on the road, the friction of the vehicle body against the surrounding air, and the friction due to the engine’s moving parts. In an effort to save some of this lost energy, it is possible to harvest it through pneumatic and mechanical devices built into the road, especially on highly traffic highways. With over 1 billion cars in the world, there is a huge potential for tapping into the lost energy, and harvesting it for another use. This technical paper focuses on designing a pneumatic and mechanical system that collects the lost kinetic energy of multiple passing cars. A new energy harvesting system utilizing pneumatic and mechanical components has been developed. In this system, a vehicle’s tires pass over a pneumatic manifold system equipped with exciter keys. These keys are depressed and activate a pneumatic system to compress air. Each exciter key is coupled to a connecting rod and piston assembly. The compressed air generated by many exciter keys is then collected in an air tank and channeled to a pneumatic motor. The pneumatic motor transmits then a rotational motion to an electricity generator that produces electric energy. The electric energy can be stored into a series of batteries. The modular pneumatic manifold systems would be located where car drivers encounter deceleration ramps, when approaching a stop sign, or entering a toll booth plaza, etc. The pneumatic system was designed using a computer drawing CAD software. The vehicle’s kinetic energy losses are thoroughly analyzed and their distribution is comprehensively determined using the first principle of thermodynamics, and the thermodynamics theory for compressed air. Energy losses to the system keys and springs, and different friction losses are also determined. A pneumatic model of the manifold, and piping connections to the air tank has been programmed using a pneumatic software for modeling and simulation. An economic viability study of such systems has also been performed. Parameters such as the number of passing cars and the number of strokes on the exciter keys necessary to fill an air tank are determined. A physical prototype of the modular manifold has been built, and experimental measurements are expected to be performed in an upcoming second phase of the project. It is envisioned that such harvesting energy systems can be used to produce energy locally in remote road areas to power stop lights, or street lights. This type of system can also be adapted to be used with other transportation systems such as trains and buses to produce electricity for their respective stations when traffic is heavy.

Use of digital microscopy in process control during the manufacture of rubber-modified thermoplastics

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 616-617
Author(s):  
M. T. Dineen
Keyword(s):  
Ccd Camera ◽  
Operating Costs ◽  
Hard Copy ◽  
Production Plant ◽  
Digital Microscopy ◽  
Nih Image ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Conventional Film ◽  
Product Loss ◽  
Image Collection

The production of rubber modified thermoplastics can exceed rates of 30,000 pounds per hour. If a production plant needs to equilibrate or has an upset, that means operating costs and lost revenue. Results of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) can be used for process adjustments to minimize product loss. Conventional TEM, however, is not a rapid turnaround technique. The TEM process was examined, and it was determined that 50% of the time it took to complete a polymer sample was related to film processing, even when using automated equipment. By replacing the conventional film portion of the process with a commercially available system to digitally acquire the TEM image, a production plant can have the same TEM image in the control room within 1.5 hours of sampling.A Hitachi H-600 TEM Operated at 100 kV with a tungsten filament was retrofitted with a SEMICAPS™ image collection and processing workstation and a KODAK MEGAPLUS™ charged coupled device (CCD) camera (Fig. 1). Media Cybernetics Image-Pro Plus software was included, and connections to a Phaser II SDX printer and the network were made. Network printers and other PC and Mac software (e.g. NIH Image) were available. By using digital acquisition and processing, the time it takes to produce a hard copy of a digital image is greatly reduced compared to the time it takes to process film.

Innovation and information technology in management

2021 ◽  
pp. 68-72
Author(s):  
Muna Shehada ◽  
F.V. Akulinin
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Operating Costs ◽  
Financial Sustainability ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Reducing Costs

Information technology, artificial intelligence and other innovative areas of economic development allow manufacturers to reduce their operating costs by improving resource planning. Optimizing supply chain management (SCM) can improve the efficiency of all business processes in an organization, while reducing costs and increasing financial sustainability.

Simultaneous Carbon Capture and Reuse Using Catalytic Membrane Reactor in Water-Gas Shift Reaction

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuey Zi Saw ◽  
Jobrun Nandong
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Membrane Reactor ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Water Gas Shift ◽  
Production Plant ◽  
Water Gas Shift Reaction ◽  
Industrial Plants ◽  
Methanation Reaction ◽  
Shift Reaction ◽  
Water Gas

AbstractHydrogen (H2) has been recognized as one of the attractive energy carriers due to its clean and environmentally friendly characteristics where the burning of H2as a fuel produces zero waste emission. Water-gas shift reaction (WGSR) has been accepted as one promising pathway for producing hydrogen. Recently, membrane technology has emerged as a new way to improve high-purity H2production via the WGSR. A substantial amount of research works has so far focussed on the production of H2alone while often neglecting the emission of carbon dioxide ($CO_2$), a greenhouse gas that is known to be the culprit responsible for global warming. Addressing the conflicting issues between clean H2fuel and environmentally adverse$CO_2$emission requires a systematic engineering approach to carbon capture to be incorporated directly into H2production plant. In view of this, the reuse of$CO_2$can be implemented by incorporating the dry methanation reaction. In the proposed reuse strategy, the WGSR uses carbon monoxide (CO) and water as the reactants while the dry methanation reaction uses$CO_2$and methane (CH4) to produce CO and H2. Based on two case studies of industrial plants, this paper presents a rigorous evaluation of the technical and economic feasibility of the implementation of this reuse strategy by using H2selective membrane reactor (MR). Upon extensive analysis of different strategies with and without carbon capture technology, it is found that with the proposed carbon capture strategy, the industrial plants show positive improvement in terms of both technical and economic performances.

scholarly journals Efficiency Measurement of Compressed Air Compressors Using High Availability SoC with 1oo2 Redundancy Architecture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Abdelawwad ◽  
Eike Hahn ◽  
Josef Boercsoek ◽  
Julian Fairbrother ◽  
Tarek Al Shahadat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
High Availability ◽  
Efficiency Measurement ◽  
Compressed Air ◽  
Industrial Plants ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Air Compressors ◽  
Increase Efficiency

Compressed air systems are essential components in various industrial and everyday applications. The efficiency of these systems is very important due to their role in the energy consumption of industrial plants. To increase efficiency, a new concept for compressed air compressors based on Industry 4.0 is presented. Due to the aggressive environmental conditions in which the compressed air compressors operate, a new design of a SoC with high availability based on 1oo2 redundancy architecture is developed.

Power Heat Balance Considerations in Design and Operation of Industrial Plants

1959 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 332-336
Author(s):  
J. I. Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Heat Balance ◽  
Performance Standards ◽  
Operating Costs ◽  
Process Equipment ◽  
Power Performance ◽  
Manufacturing Costs ◽  
Industrial Plants

Relations between design of process equipment and power-service facilities for industrial plants and the effect of each on over-all investment and operating costs are shown by typical examples. A brief discussion is given of a method of controlling manufacturing costs by application of power-performance standards once a plant is in operation.

scholarly journals From biogas to biomethane: Techno-economic analysis of an anaerobic digestion power plant in a cattle/buffalo farm in central Italy

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 127-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ester Scotto di Perta ◽  
Elena Cervelli ◽  
Maria Pironti di Campagna ◽  
Stefania Pindozzi
Keyword(s):  
Anaerobic Digestion ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Biogas Production ◽  
Central Italy ◽  
Hollow Fibre ◽  
Operating Costs ◽  
Electricity Production ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Production Plant ◽  
Biomethane Production

Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a mature technology commonly used for manure treatment, both for the stabilisation of waste and for the production of energy. The introduction of new incentives could represent an opportunity for biogas production, when the current feed-in-tariffs, which improved the financial feasibility of AD plants producing electricity will end. This paper examines the feasibility of reconverting an existing AD biogas production plant into a biomethane production plant. The AD plant, in this case study, is a two-stage reactor situated in the centre of Italy and mainly fed with livestock manure from both cows and buffaloes. The economic analysis of two hypotheses is provided: i) continuing the electricity production from biogas after the end of the current incentives (2025); ii) considering the new incentives program for the biomethane and reconverting the plant, using hollow-fibre membranes for the purification of the raw biogas (SEPURAN® Green modules, EnviTec). For this purpose, investment and operating costs, based on plant monitoring data (2105.3 m3 d–1, Biogas production; 4432.9 kWh d–1, electricity production) as well as on market analysis for costs evaluation were considered. The mean biogas production for the considered year was about 30% less than the expected production, indicated by producer, highlighting the need for the optimisation of the management of the reactors. Moreover, based on the averaged methane production (June 2017-June 2018), results show that: i) plant conversion for the biomethane production is not suitable for small-scale plants, due to the high investment costs of upgrading technology (1.2 M€); ii) when current incentives end, the electricity production from biogas in the current plant may not be self-sufficient, due to the highly expensive operating costs. This paper provides a first analysis of the possible fate of the biogas plants under the new incentives.

Automated Pattern Recognition in Load Profiles of Milling Operations

2015 ◽  
Vol 805 ◽  
pp. 180-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnim Reger ◽  
Hans Henrik Westermann ◽  
Ana Paula Aires
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Markov Models ◽  
Key Performance Indicators ◽  
Specific Power ◽  
Production Plant ◽  
Manufacturing Plants ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Milling Operations ◽  
Power And Energy

Due to the introduction of an energy management system, a lot of existing manufacturing plants were equipped with energy measurement systems. With sufficient sample rates those retrofitted energy measuring systems could provide additional information beside active power and energy consumption. Each production plant is characterized by a process and product specific power consumption with an associated power signal. In this paper a method to determine the information content in power signals of milling operations is discussed. By using the cross correlation function and hidden markov models (HMM) for operation recognition and automatic derivation of energy key performance indicators (EnPI) can be realized. In addition, further production related key performance indicators (KPI) can be derived with pattern recognition in load and current profiles.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document