CTP Team Italy and CTN Makina Turkey will deliver a new project which will bring energy saving to Outão Cement Factory, Portugal.
CTP Team Italy signed a turnkey EPC contract with Secil Group for the project consisting of a new Waste Heat Recovery System for the factory located in Portugal. The project consists of several new developments to provide a highly customized solution to feed a double-loop system (thermal oil + Organic), to recover waste heat and produce electricity from three different sources: kiln pre-heater and clinker cooler of the existing 4000 TPD cement unit N°9 and a new solar field, that SECIL will install nearby the production line.
Engineering by CTP, construction by CTN Makina, the new heat exchangers will recover up to 29MW of waste heat to feed a new ORC equipped with a state-of-the-art axial turbine of 7,2MW by Turboden. The new WHR is expected to generate approximately 50 million of kWh per year, covering more than 30% of the current plant’s electricity needs. The first kW generation is scheduled for the second half of 2022.
From an environment point of view, the new WHR system will brings green energy and will reduce the carbon footprint of cement plant by a total of 14.000 ton per year of equivalent CO2. In addition, the system provided by CTP is totally water free, without any need to treat residual waters from the process: none natural resources will be exploited.
The WHR system is fully automatic, is monitored in remote (Industry 4.0) and drastically reduces the need of physical presence of operators during the daily operation. Thanks to this specific advantage of organic cycles and to the total absence of water treatments in the process, the OPEX is reduced lower by 75% respect in comparison to an equivalent WHR based on traditional Steam Rankine cycle and with the added advantage that the plant can run autonomously from remote even in problematic situations like those that we are living in these days.
The WHR Project is part of the major R&D Clean Cement Line Project (CCL Project) that Group SECIL is undertaking at its Outão cement plant in Portugal. Aiming at bringing the Outão cement plant to the forefront of energy efficiency and lowest CO2 emissions among the European cement producers, the CCL Project is partly funded by the Portugal 2020 Government incentives program.