Effect of Replacing Current Power Plant in Tabriz Oil Refinery with Combined Heat and Power System (CHP) on Energy Consumption

Oil refineries with the aim of converting crude oil to high value products are one of the most important industries in the world. Refining processes consume large amounts of energy including electricity and steam. Since most of the energy is generated from non-renewable resources and these resources are exhausted rapidly, energy consumption management and optimization of production in power plants have received great attention in recent years (Eslami et al., 2019; Aryanpur et al, 2019). In this paper the effect of replacing the current power plant of Tabriz Oil Refinery with a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) system on energy consumption and efficiency of power generation is investigated.