Title: Exergy analyses of a tunnel furnace and a tunnel dryer

Authors: Gurhan Tahtali; Hayati Olgun; Mustafa Gunes; Arif Hepbasli

Addresses: Dev Blok Brick Factory and Graduate School of Natural and Applied Science, Solar Energy Institute, Ege University, Bornova, Izmir, 35100, Turkey ' Solar Energy Institute, Ege University, Bornova, Izmir, 35100, Turkey ' Solar Energy Institute, Ege University, Bornova, Izmir, 35100, Turkey ' Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Yasar University, Bornova, Izmir, 35100, Turkey

Abstract: The main objective of this study is to comprehensively perform exergy analysis of the tunnel furnace and the tunnel dryer, which was selected as the control volume and involved in a brick production line. The analysis was based on the real data measured over a one-year period at a working brick factory with a daily production capacity of 392 tons of fired bricks. Energy and exergy efficiencies of the control volume were obtained to be 76.46% and 12.90% for dead state values of 25°C and 1.013 atm, respectively.

Keywords: brick factory; tunnel furnace; tunnel dryer; energy and exergy analysis.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEX.2021.118717

International Journal of Exergy, 2021 Vol.36 No.2/3/4, pp.208 - 226

Received: 01 Sep 2020
Accepted: 04 Mar 2021
Published online: 03 Nov 2021 *

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