Heat Energy Recovery for Industrial Processes and Wastes

This book provides new techniques for recovering exhaust heat from gas turbines, natural gas combined cycle power plants, biomass boilers, and waste heat recovery from compost and wastewater treatment plants.

The book provides modeling for the study and comparison of combined cycle power plants with a heat recovery boiler of three pressure levels with reheating, inserting a technological improvement of solar hybridization and partial regeneration in the gas turbine. It assesses the environmental impacts and economic sustainability associated with these improvements.  In addition, it proposes emissions minimization, with exhaust gas recirculation (EGR), and emissions treatment with a CO2 capture plant (CCP) and combined cycle power plant. Finally, it provides new insights into heat recovery from compost and exhaust gases recovery from wastewater treatment plants.

Dr. David Borge-Diez has a Ph.D. in Energy Engineering and master's degrees in Industrial Technology Research, Industrial Engineering, and Bachelor in Industrial Engineering. His work in teaching and as a researcher is focused on the field of energy, with special emphasis on the use of unconventional energy sources and energy efficiency. For more than 8 years, he has worked in different private companies nationally and internationally developing research projects and engineering work, whilst he has made this activity compatible with teaching and research in different universities and organizations.

Dr. Rosales-Asensio (Ph.D.) is an industrial engineer with postgraduate degrees in electrical engineering, business administration, and quality, health, safety, and environment management systems. Currently, he is an associate professor at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. He has also worked as a plant engineer for a company that focuses on the design, development, and manufacture of waste-heat-recovery technology for large reciprocating engines; and as a project manager in a world-leading research center.