Atakan Tantekin
Adana Science and Technology University, Turkey
Title: Performance assessment of a biogas powered gas engine in a wastewater treatment plant
Biography
Biography: Atakan Tantekin
Abstract
Energy production from the renewable energy sources is an emerging technology all over the World, especially in the last decades. Biogas production from recycling wastewater is a thriving option to meet the energy demand as well as to prevent environmental pollution. Due to the high content of methane in the biogas, the biogas has a high heating capacity as fuels. This study demonstrates an exergy analysis of a gas engine powered by biogas in a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), located in Turkey. In order to investigate the effect of the biogas on the system performance, the exergy efficiency and exergy destruction rate for the gas engine are analyzed in the WWTP. The analysis show that the irreversibility occurs in the gas engine is calculated as 2235.66 kW. The second law efficiency of the gas engine is found as 63.12%. As a result, in order to obtain more efficient energy production process, the significant amount of irreversibility occurred in the gas engine must be taken into consideration.