Publication detail

Utility Exchanger Network synthesis for Total Site Heat Integration

Tarighaleslami, A.H. Walmsley, T.G. Atkins, M.J. Walmsley, M.R.W. Neale, J.R.

English title

Utility Exchanger Network synthesis for Total Site Heat Integration

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

en

Original abstract

TTotal Site Heat Integration (TSHI) targeting and optimisation methods have been well developed while few studies deal with detailed Utility Exchanger Network (UEN) design. The UEN is the network of heat exchangers that connect a site's centralised utility system to provide the required process heating and cooling while also facilitating inter-process heat recovery, i.e. TSHI. This paper presents a new UEN design procedure based on the recently developed Unified TSHI targeting method. The Unified method applies more strict constraints on the UEN network, compared to Conventional methods, allowing series utility exchanger matches for a non-isothermal utility if the exchangers in series are from the same process. This constraint reduces the dependency of the individual processes that constitute the Total Site. In UEN design procedure based on the Unified method, calculated utility targets can be archived after UEN design and the number of exchangers reduces compared to the Conventional methods’ design procedure. Also, different Exchanger Minimum Approach Temperature in the UEN synthesis may have an influence on network design and the exchanger configuration but the identical heat recovery and utility targets are achieved after UEN design based on both design procedures

English abstract

TTotal Site Heat Integration (TSHI) targeting and optimisation methods have been well developed while few studies deal with detailed Utility Exchanger Network (UEN) design. The UEN is the network of heat exchangers that connect a site's centralised utility system to provide the required process heating and cooling while also facilitating inter-process heat recovery, i.e. TSHI. This paper presents a new UEN design procedure based on the recently developed Unified TSHI targeting method. The Unified method applies more strict constraints on the UEN network, compared to Conventional methods, allowing series utility exchanger matches for a non-isothermal utility if the exchangers in series are from the same process. This constraint reduces the dependency of the individual processes that constitute the Total Site. In UEN design procedure based on the Unified method, calculated utility targets can be archived after UEN design and the number of exchangers reduces compared to the Conventional methods’ design procedure. Also, different Exchanger Minimum Approach Temperature in the UEN synthesis may have an influence on network design and the exchanger configuration but the identical heat recovery and utility targets are achieved after UEN design based on both design procedures

Keywords in English

Heat Exchanger Network; Heat Recovery; Pinch Analysis; Total Site Heat Integration; Utility Exchanger Network; Concrete beams and girders; Heat exchangers; Integration; Waste heat; Waste heat utilization; Conventional methods; Heat integration; Heating and cooling; Network synthesis; Optimisation method; Pinch analysis; Strict constraint; Computer system recovery; analytical method; cooling; design; heat transfer; heating; integrated approach; isotherm; optimization; temperature

Released

15.06.2018

Publisher

Elsevier Ltd

ISSN

0360-5442

Volume

153

Number

153

Pages from–to

1000–1015

Pages count

16

BIBTEX


@article{BUT151429,
  author="Timothy Gordon {Walmsley},
  title="Utility Exchanger Network synthesis for Total Site Heat Integration",
  year="2018",
  volume="153",
  number="153",
  month="June",
  pages="1000--1015",
  publisher="Elsevier Ltd",
  issn="0360-5442"
}