@article { author = {Golpour, I. and Ahmadi Moghaddam, P. and Nikbakht, A. M.}, title = {Exergy Analysis of the Steam Generation System to Explore the Potential for Optimizing Energy Consumption}, journal = {Journal of Agricultural Machinery}, volume = {12}, number = {2}, pages = {119-130}, year = {2022}, publisher = {Ferdowsi University of Mashhad}, issn = {2228-6829}, eissn = {2423-3943}, doi = {10.22067/jam.2021.57932.0}, abstract = {IntroductionSteam generation system is a crucial and essential part of food industries which generates and distributes steam for consumption in domestic production units. Energy analysis based on the first law of thermodynamics was employed as the basic approach to assess energy systems. However, the energy approach does not provide information on the degradation of the energy quality occurring within energy systems and is, therefore, insufficient for sustainable design or optimization goals. Nevertheless, exergy analysis based on both the first and second laws of thermodynamics can overcome shortcomings of energy analysis. In the present study, the performance of equipment of the steam generation system in Pakdis’s juice production Company located in Urmia is investigated. Owing to the energy and exergy analyses, the sites with the highest loss of exergy are identified as the critical points of the process.Materials and MethodsIn this study, the steam generation unit of a juice production company located in Urmia, West Azarbaijan province in Iran was exergetically analyzed. Using mass, energy, and exergy balances for each component of the unit, the thermodynamic objective functions including the exergy efficiency, exergy destruction rate, exergy loss rate, and the potential improvement rate were assessed. After data acquisition, energy and exergy analysis of this unit was achieved by solving the related equations with the help of thermodynamic properties along with programming in EES software package.Results and DiscussionThe results showed that the highest exergy efficiency of 98.44% was assigned to the steam distributor (O) of the unit with a potential improvement rate of 1.51 kW and an exergy loss rate of 68.80 kW, as well as the pump (M) before the fourth boiler with an exergy efficiency of 19.69%, had the lowest value of exergy efficiency. The values of 12.55 and 11.93 kW were obtained for the exergy destruction rate and its potential improvement rate, respectively. The highest exergy destruction rate of the unit was for the first boiler with a value of 12391.80 kW, with an efficiency of 19.55% and a potential improvement rate of 10295.26 kW.ConclusionWith regard to the energy and exergy analyses of the steam production system, more than 98% of the exergy destruction rate of the entire steam generation system was assigned to boilers, which had a major contribution to the exergetic efficiency of the system. The highest percentage of potential improvement was related to the first boiler and also the third boiler had the highest exergy loss rate, although the lowest exergy loss rate was the expansion tank of the system. In general, this study demonstrated the importance of exergy analysis for detecting the system components with the highest exergy destruction, which can be a breakthrough to identify these components and provides suitable solutions to improve the overall exergy efficiency of the steam-generating system.}, keywords = {Exergetic efficiency,Exergy destruction rate,Exergy potential improvement rate,Steam generation system}, title_fa = {تحلیل اکسرژی سامانه تولید بخار به‌منظور کاوش پتانسیل بهینه‌سازی مصرف انرژی}, abstract_fa = {در این کار تحقیقاتی، تحلیل انرژی و اکسرژی سامانه تولید بخار شرکت آبمیوه پاکدیس ارومیه با چهار دیگ بخار بررسی شد و با استفاده از معادلات تعادل جرم، انرژی و اکسرژی برای هر یک از اجزای سامانه، توابع هدف ترمودینامیکی شامل بازده اکسرژی، نرخ تخریب اکسرژی، نرخ تلفات اکسرژی و نرخ پتانسیل بهبود آن‌ها بر اساس قانون اول و دوم ترمودینامیکی مورد ارزیابی قرار گرفت. پس از اکتساب داده‌ها، تحلیل انرژی و اکسرژی این سامانه با حل معادلات مربوطه با کمک روابط خواص ترمودینامیکی همراه با برنامه‌نویسی در نرم‌افزار EES صورت پذیرفت. نتایج نشان داد که بیشترین بازده اکسرژی 98.44 درصد، مربوط به توزیع‌کننده بخار (O) سامانه با نرخ پتانسیل بهبود 1.51 کیلووات و نرخ تخریب اکسرژی 28.38 کیلووات بود، و همچنین پمپ (M) قبل از دیگ بخار چهارم با بازده اکسرژی 19.69 درصد دارای کمترین مقدار بازده اکسرژی بود به طوری‌که مقادیر 12.55 و 11.93 کیلووات به‌ترتیب برای نرخ تخریب اکسرژی و نرخ پتانسیل بهبود آن حاصل شد. بیشترین نرخ تخریب اکسرژی سامانه را دیگ بخار اول با مقدار 12391.80 کیلووات با بازده 19.55 درصد و نرخ پتانسیل بهبود 10295.26 کیلووات دارا بود. طبق نتایج حاصله، بیشترین و کمترین مقدار نرخ تلفات اکسرژی سامانه با مقادیر 446.90 و 0.47 کیلووات به‌ترتیب برای دیگ بخار سوم (L) و منبع انبساط (F) به‌دست آمد.}, keywords_fa = {بازده اکسرژی,سامانه تولید بخار,نرخ پتانسیل بهبود اکسرژی,نرخ تخریب اکسرژی}, url = {https://jame.um.ac.ir/article_39410.html}, eprint = {https://jame.um.ac.ir/article_39410_089084226da0c67c289def12ba2b9e45.pdf} }