The analysis of heat exchange processes during cooling of the heated surface of the process equipment is carried out on the basis of the equations contained in the ANSYS Fluent package. When modeling heat exchange processes, the following boundary conditions are adopted: the temperature of the heated surface; the coil heat exchanger is located at a distance from the heated surface of the process equipment. From these results, we can draw the following conclusions: the increase in the temperature of the heated surface leads to the increase of the heating zone of the refrigerant with high capacity and, hence, to increase heat capacity; increasing the refrigerant flow rate, the lower the temperature of the refrigerant at the exit, but increases the thermal capacity; increasing the pressure of the heated refrigerant increases the thermal; this design of the heat exchanger allows you to achieve the necessary power for the operation of the drive by: changing the flow rate of the refrigerant, the excess pressure of the refrigerant, the number of elbows, as well as by installing a heat-reflecting casing

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This paper presents the methodology and results of optimization of the waste heat recovery system (WHRS) of a mobile compressor unit (MCU) designed to compress natural gas using a computer model in the MatLab with the CoolProp thermodynamic package. In the course of the study, a computer model of the WHRS is built, a criterion for the efficiency of recuperation is determined, an optimization problem is formulated and its solution is carried out. The boiling pressure and mass flow rate of the working fluid in the Rankine cycle are taken as the optimization parameters. With the optimal values of these parameters, the smallest value of the relative mass fuel consumption of the MCU is achieved, that is, the maximum recuperation efficiency is achieved.

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This paper present an assessment of the energy efficiency of various combinations of piston stages of an internal combustion engine, a compressor, and a Rankine engine as part of piston motor-compressor units based on modernized marine diesel engines. An eight-cylinder single-row diesel engine 8Ch23/30-1 is chosen as the object of research, the base of which is used as a single platform for creating powertechnology units for various purposes and power. The proposed variants for converting the original engine allow, with minimal costs for the development of design and manufacturing technology, to create gas engine compressor units with reduced fuel consumption and improved weight and size characteristics in comparison with the known mobile compressor stations driven by diesel internal combustion engines. In the paper, on the basis of the developed mathematical models of working processes, the possibility of joint operation of diesel cylinders with piston expanders of the Rankine cycle and one or more stages of a piston compressor is assessed. Various possible combinations of diesel cylinders, compressor cylinders and expander cylinders are considered, as well as the dependences of engine power and compressor performance depending on the number of compressor stages and the number of diesel power cylinders used.