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      Total site heat integration of multi-effect evaporators with vapour recompression for older kraft mills

      Walmsley, Timothy Gordon; Atkins, Martin John; Ong, Benjamin H.Y.; Klemeš, Jiří Jaromír; Walmsley, Michael R.W.; Varbanov, Petar S.
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       10.3303/CET1761042
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      Walmsley, T. G., Atkins, M. J., Ong, B. H. Y., Klemeš, J. J., Walmsley, M. R. W., & Varbanov, P. S. (2017). Total site heat integration of multi-effect evaporators with vapour recompression for older kraft mills. Chemical Engineering Transactions, 61, 265–270. https://doi.org/10.3303/CET1761042
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/11503
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      This paper aims to apply Total Site Heat Integration (TSHI) to appropriately integrate Mechanical and Thermal Vapour Recompression with multi-effect evaporators at older Kraft Mills, to cause a step reduction in fossil fuel use and its associated emissions. Heat and power demands for older Kraft Mills are chiefly satisfied from Recovery Boilers (RB), heavily supplemented by biomass/fossil fuel boilers, and integrated with steam turbines. Prior to firing, black liquor - the RB fuel - is concentrated from about 18 % to 67 % in a multi-effect evaporator, which demands 20 % of site-wide thermal energy. With access to renewable electricity, this study finds that vapour recompression can be economically integrated into a multi-effect evaporator at older Kraft Mills. The vapour recompression configuration with the greatest economic potential used 2-stages of mechanical vapour recompression and 1-stage of thermal vapour recompression. This system achieved a levelised profit of NZD 8.56 M/y, a payback period of 1.0 y and an internal rate of return of 103 %. An optimum integrated set-up needs to account for site-specific heat demand and utility supply profiles through TSHI.
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      2017
      Type
      Journal Article
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      AIDIC (Italian Association of Chemical Engineering)
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      Copyright © 2017, AIDIC Servizi S.r.l.
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