Preliminary analysis of dry-steam geothermal power plant by employing exergy assessment: Case study in Kamojang geothermal power plant, Indonesia

Abstract

The objectives of this study are to perform the exergy analysis and ambient temperature optimization of the Kamojang geothermal power plant by employing Engineering Equation Solver (EES). The geothermal capacity is 55 MW and the field is vapor-dominated reservoir with temperature 245 °C. In the initial state temperature, pressure and mass flow data are collected from the plant operation. The study results show that system has overall efficiency of 35.86% which means that only 111,138.92 kW electrical power can be extracted from 309,000 kW thermal power being produced by 10 production wells of Kamojang. This low efficiency is due to irreversibility associated with different processes and components in the system. The largest irreversibility occurs in condenser due to which 53% of total energy is disposed into the environment. Ambient temperature at Kamojang varies from 17 to 20 °C. The effect of this variation in temperature is also investigated and it is observed that higher temperature does not have any significant impact on system efficiency.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csite.2017.07.006
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > School of Engineering and Technology > Mechanical, Biomedical & Design
College of Engineering & Physical Sciences
Additional Information: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Publication ISSN: 2214-157X
Last Modified: 30 Sep 2024 12:02
Date Deposited: 02 Jul 2019 11:53
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Published Date: 2017-09-01
Published Online Date: 2017-07-22
Accepted Date: 2017-07-18
Authors: Rudiyanto, Bayu
Illah, IbnuAtho
Pambudi, Nugroho Agung
Cheng, Chin-Chi
Adiprana, Reza
Imran, Muhammad (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-3057-1301)
Saw, Lip Huat
Handogo, Renanto

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