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1. Introduction - Firenze University Press

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3.3. AZEP 100<br />

Fig. 2. AZEP 100 Top Cycle Process Flow Diagram in ASPEN Plus ® with a JACOBIAN based ITM<br />

model [10]<br />

The topping cycle of the AZEP 100 is a Brayton-like cycle with an ITM air separation unit and a<br />

combustor. The air is compressed and split into two streams - "AIRMCM" and "AIRREST". The<br />

feed stream to the ITM is preheated by the recycled combustion products with a heat exchanger<br />

network (see "LHEX-ITM-HHEX" shown in Fig. 2). "AIRMCM" is preheated to 973 K in the heat<br />

exchanger "LHEX". This preheated feed stream provides oxygen to the permeate stream in the<br />

ITM. The "AIRRES" exiting the ITM (O2 depleted stream) is further heated by the combustion<br />

products "RECYCLED" (which serves as the permeate stream in the ITM) and is expanded in the<br />

gas turbine. A part of "AIRREST" is used to cool the gas turbine and a part is used to regenerate<br />

thermal energy from the combustion products in the heat exchanger "BHEX". The permeate stream<br />

contains O2 (from the feed stream) necessary to burn the required amount of fuel.<br />

The temperature of combustion products is limited by the temperature limit of the high temperature<br />

heat exchanger "HHEX". A design specification control loop is implemented to maintain the<br />

temperature of the combustion products at 1473 K by varying the split fraction of the compressed<br />

air (splitter "B3"). Another design specification control loop varies the recycle ratio (split fraction<br />

of splitter "B6") to maintain a minimum approach temperature in "LHEX" without any temperature<br />

cross over in the heat exchanger network "LHEX-ITM-HHEX". The degrees of freedom for the<br />

topping cycle include the inlet flow rates and ITM size.<br />

The "PRODBOTM" stream after extraction of thermal energy in "BHEX" and the "GTEXH" (outlet<br />

from the turbine) are fed to the bottoming cycle for extraction of work from the thermal energy of<br />

these streams. A standard triple pressure stream generator cycle with pressure levels at 100, 25 and<br />

5 bars is used as bottoming cycle for the AZEP 100 (Fig. 3). The outlet stream "TOCPU" is fed to<br />

the compression and purification unit to separate H2O and CO2.<br />

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