Exergy analysis of an industrial process for the removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons through modified chitosan microbeads
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Due to the adverse effects that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) have on the ecosystems of Cartagena Bay. An exergy analysis was carried out to an industrial water treatment process which uses a bioadsorbent from chitosan modified with nanoparticles, to evaluate the energy performance of the process and assess its possible application. The process was simulated in Aspen Plus software and property values of the streams were subtracted for the analysis. In this analysis it was found that the solvent recovery stage shows the highest irreversibilities (284,251.2344 Mj / h), unlike the other stages of the process that presented irreversibilities of the order of 10 ^ 2 (Mj / h), this it is due to the use of thermal energy in the separation equipment that it tends to be lost easily when it is used to do useful work. In addition, a sensitivity analysis was carried out between the adsorption stage and the recovery stage, this indicates that the exergetic efficiency of the adsorption stage increases up to 99%, there is only a 0.1% increase in global efficiency. While an increase of 0.4% in the efficiency of the recovery stage produces a change of 0.4%, this indicates that this stage is crucial to increase the overall exergetic efficiency of the process, which was 15% and shows that
this process presents opportunities for improvement to be completely energy sustainable.
Ángel D. González-Delgado, 1Universidad de Cartagena, Facultad de Ingeniería, Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Grupo de Investigación de Nanopartículas e Ingeniería Asistida por Computador (NIPAC), Cartagena, Colombia.
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Accepted 2021-11-21
Published 2022-05-26
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