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Heat Integration of Batch Processes
Author(s) -
Uhlenbruck S.,
Vogel R.,
Lucas K.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
chemical engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1521-4125
pISSN - 0930-7516
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1521-4125(200003)23:3<226::aid-ceat226>3.0.co;2-k
Subject(s) - process integration , heat exchanger , pinch analysis , process engineering , process (computing) , heat recovery ventilation , computer science , engineering , mechanical engineering , operating system
Heat integration is the synthesis of heat exchanger networks by connecting process streams requiring cooling and heating. Primary energy is saved by utilizing the heat of a hot stream to warm up a cold stream instead of using fossil fuels. For stationary processes pinch analysis has been established to find the optimum heat integration. An appropriate, though not optimal method for heat integration in batch processes is OMNIUM. In this paper, it is demonstrated that the conventional OMNIUM method can be improved systematically in order to achieve a higher heat recovery.