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Title: Design And Economics Of Pipeline Bottoming Cycles
Author: R. J. Rossbach
Source: American Gas Association 1979
Year Published: 1979
Abstract: Organic Rankine cycle apparatus in the 600 to 900 horsepower range appears to be technically feasible and economic. Since several units in this power range are being developed under the Department of Energy (DOE) by three different manufacturers, it was thought that this new technology lihould be applied to pipeline bottoming cycles which are of a larger size, giving them the advantage of economy of scale. Thus the DOE ha established a pipeline bottoming cycle program which strives to save an appreciable amount of the natural gas used as fuel for the compressor station prime movers and which will progress through research, development and demonstration of bottoming cycle apparatus under actual pipeline operating condition. In this paper the bottoming cycle system design, the instailalion design for three compressor sites, the technical feasibility and the economic assessment of the three installations are discussed. The pipeline bottoming cycle apparatus in the 5000 to 6000 horsepower range is shown to be technologically feasible now. It is concluded under the assumptions of the study that the pipeline bottoming cycle apparatus is economically viable now when pumping new gas and economically viable in the 1980s when pumping gas with the average of new and old gas costs.

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