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Computer‐aided synthesis and design of plant utility systems
Author(s) -
Petroulas T.,
Reklaitis G. V.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
aiche journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1547-5905
pISSN - 0001-1541
DOI - 10.1002/aic.690300112
Subject(s) - horsepower , header , process engineering , work (physics) , engineering , process (computing) , steam turbine , computer science , automotive engineering , control engineering , mechanical engineering , computer network , operating system
A design synthesis procedure is developed for preliminary design of utility systems. Given known steam sources (waste heat and auxiliary boilers) and sinks (heating, process injection, and driver horsepower needs), the algorithm determines the optimal header pressure levels, the distribution of steam turbines in the network, and the steam flows between all devices so as to maximize the real work recovered from the sources. Any number of pressure levels can be accommodated at only modest increase in computational effort.