Exergy analysis, preliminary, of cogeneration from forests plantations

Autores

  • Sérgio Inácio Gomes Universidade Estadual de Maringá – Departamento de Engenharia Química
  • Luiz Mário Matos Jorge Universidade Estadual de Maringá – Departamento de Engenharia Química
  • Paulo Roberto Paraíso Universidade Estadual de Maringá – Departamento de Engenharia Química
  • Wagner André dos Santos Conceição Universidade Estadual de Maringá – Departamento de Engenharia Química
  • Cid Marcos Gonçalves Andrade Universidade Estadual de Maringá – Departamento de Engenharia Química

Resumo

The fossil sources will be exhausted in the near future or have their costs prohibitive for use as fuel and to generate electricity. Furthermore, the use of fossil fuels in any form, have been harmful to the environment. In this work we make the exergy analysis, preliminary quantitative, for three alternatives using of energy from forest plantations (wood). The first with the direct conversion of wood energy in power; in the second, half of the wood is used to generate electricity and steam to be used in the process of gasification, with the other half, followed with the generation of electric power in fuel cell; and the third using a cogeneration plant coupled to gasification of wood, and fuel cell. How, in theory, would be expected due to have a priori, less sources of irreversibility, the direct conversion of energy into electric energy from forest plantations was more favorable from the exergy point of view, and the third is the worst alternative. However, we can not discard the possibility of the use of energy from the forest plantations as a primarysource in fuel cell; this will depend on operational situations where you want to use the energy.Keywords: Forest plantations, Fuel cells, Exergetic Anlysis, Cogeneration, Gasification.

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v. 15 n. 1 (2009)

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