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The students of the Master's Degree in Industrial Engineering Enrique Moya Tárraga and Emilio Berciano Rueda, and of the Degree in Mechanical Engineering Larbi Amnanou and José Antonio Rubio del Amor, received last July 18 in Madrid the 2nd prize in the ISOVER Industrial Efficiency Awards.
The project, developed during the academic year 2018/19, consisted of the proposal of innovative ideas in the field of energy engineering, the development of basic engineering and the study of economic profitability and environmental improvements, with the aim of reducing the consumption of fuel oil and diesel in the insular power generation park operated by Endesa on the island of Fuerteventura.
The finalist teams defended their proposals in front of a jury composed of energy experts from Endesa and Isover Saint-Gobain.
The students of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, coordinated by the professor of the Department of Thermal Engineering and Fluids Juan Pedro Solano Fernández, proposed a proposal for the recovery of heat from the exhaust gases of an open-cycle gas turbine and two engines of internal combustion that satisfy the peaks of demand of the island, using a system of sensible heat accumulation connected to an organic Rankine cycle that uses toluene as a working fluid.
This solution allows to produce 9 GWh per year of electricity from residual heat, avoiding the emission of 7200 tons of CO2.
The jury present in the final phase of the awards, which also received other teams from the Miguel Hernández University, the Polytechnic University of Madrid and the Antonio Nebrija University, highlighted the rigor of the proposal of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, based on the development of a dynamic model of the processes of loading and unloading of energy, as well as the skills of the team for the public exhibition and debate of the technical and economic aspects of the project.
Source: UPCT
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