Possibilities Study of a Non-condensable Gas Exhaust System through the Condensate Injection Pipe at PLTP Wayang Windu
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https://doi.org/10.25299/jgeet.2023.8.02-2.13878Keywords:
Non-Condensable Gas, Condensate, Gas Removal System, Geothermal, Carbon Capture, Reservoir, Condensate Reinjection, Pipeline, Flash Absorber, Power Plant, Eco-friendlyAbstract
Wayang Windu Geothermal Power Plant, located in Pangalengan, Bandung regency, West Java with an installed capacity of 227 MWe has two units to generate electricity and deliver to the Jawa, Madura, and Bali grid. The steam extracted from the reservoir contains non-condensable gas of about 1-1.2% of total steam extracted, with the gas composition is CO2 92%, H2S 2%, NH3 0.1%, and residual gasses 4.9%. Possibilities study of a non-condensable gas exhaust through the condensate injection pipe was created as the efforts in the environmental conservation aspect for reducing carbon released to the atmosphere and reinjected back into the reservoir. This study was simulated in Wayang Windu Unit 2 by calculating the non-condensable gas flow rate from the gas removal system into the condensate injection pipe near of cooling tower blowdown power station area. The analysis result of this study indicates that the non-condensable gas requires a higher flow rate of condensate to dissolve the entire non-condensable gas, and may cause the slug flow pattern which would endanger the condensate pipeline system also destabilize the non-condensable gas exhaust operation process from the condenser through the gas removal system. To deal with this problem, the possibility of exhausting the non-condensable gas produced by the gas removal system can be alternated by flowing its non-condensable gas into a flash absorber system and converting its non-condensable gas into other eco-friendly products and power plant safe.
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