Design and Experimental Study of HTSG for Waste to Energy: Analysis of Pressure Difference

Abstract

The purpose of the present study is to analyze pressure difference changes inside a high-temperature steam generator (HTSG), which produces steam using the heat generated by waste incineration and decreases the pressure of the produced steam while increasing its temperature. The high-temperature, low-pressure steam produced by a HTSG is used for hydrogen production. Therefore, the steam temperature must be at least 700 °C, and the pressure must be lower than 300 kPa; hence, a device is needed to increase the steam temperature in the boiler and decrease the steam pressure. The physical behavior of the device was modeled and experimentally validated. The modeling and experimental results demonstrated good agreement when the steam was not preheated; however, an additional pressure drop required consideration of the opposite case.

Keywords

• high-temperature steam generator (HTSG)
• superheater
• waste to energy (WtE)
• sudden effect
• pressure difference