Feasibility Study of Modular Energy Conversion System as a Gas Let-down Expander

C2科技(**C2T**)是一家为能源回收、节约和储存以及可再生能源开发创新解决方案的公司，帮助行业满足低碳世界的需求。C2T的主要活动领域是回收低级能源废物，即在各种基础和其他加工行业，如造纸、钢铁、化工、食品和饮料、制造、水泥等中释放到环境中。BEIS工业热回收计划发现，2014年，11TWh的工业热能在技术上可以回收，但由于许多低功率来源，其中只有5TWh在商业上是可行的。低能耗的能源回收尤其受到大型服务运营商的普遍忽视，因为它在技术上很难回收，而且利润低于回收高能耗的能源浪费。项目团队的重点是在天然气减压站通过压力转换(P2P)过程回收低能耗(&lt；150kW)的能源浪费。出于对温室气体排放、能源可负担性和能源安全的担忧，现在有一个关键的动力来提高能源效率。为了与这些需求保持一致，许多行业开始研究回收它们在运营过程中产生的低能耗低品位能源浪费的方法。目前市场上提供的此类能源回收系统的一个主要担忧是，它们的成本较高，投资回收期相对较长(3-5年)。C2T相信，模块化概念以及他们创新的低成本气体轴承将提供显著的市场优势，并在一系列基础和一般工业领域导致更高效的废能回收。该项目将使C2T能够提供其气体降压膨胀机(GLDE)的前端工程设计，将技术从TRL3转移到TRL4/TRL5，并确认项目合作伙伴的减压和计量站的系统成本。该项目将使主要利益攸关方能够评估GLDE，导致在项目合作伙伴现场进行详细设计、建造和安装的后续项目，以便在工业环境中进行测试。

C2 Technology (**C2T**) is a company that develops innovative solutions for energy recovery, saving and storage as well as renewables to help industries meet demands for a low carbon world. C2T's main field of activities lies in the area of recovery of low-grade energy waste that is, otherwise, released into the environment in a variety of foundation and other processing industries such as paper, steel, chemical, food and drink, manufacturing, cement etc.The BEIS Industrial Heat Recovery Programme found that in 2014 11TWh of industrial heat could have been technically recovered, but only 5TWh of this would have been commercially viable due to many low power sources. Low-power waste energy recovery in particular is widely overlooked by the larger service operators as it is technically difficult to recover and less profitable than recovery of high-power energy waste.The project team's focus is on recovery of low-power (<150kW) energy waste through pressure-to-power (P2P) processes in a natural gas pressure reduction station.There is now a critical impetus for enhanced energy efficiency due to the concerns of greenhouse gas emissions, energy affordability and energy security. To be in-line with these needs many industries started to examine ways of recovering low-power low-grade energy waste they produce while operating.A key concern with the current market offerings for such energy recovery systems is their high cost with comparatively lengthy payback (\>3-5 years) on investment. C2T believes that the modular concept along with their innovative low-cost gas bearings will give a significant market advantage and lead to more efficient recovery of waste energy across a range of foundation and general industry sectors.This project will enable C2T to deliver a front-end engineering design of their Gas Let-Down Expander (GLDE) moving the technology from TRL3 to TRL4/TRL5 as well as confirm system costs for their project partner's pressure reduction and metering station. The project would enable key stakeholders to evaluate GLDE, leading to a follow-up project of detail design, build and installation at the project partners site for testing in an industrial environment.