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CHE551-Lecture4 Energy Optimization Using Pinch Analysis

The document discusses multiple utilities targeting using pinch analysis and grand composite curves. It explains that the GCC plot divides stream temperatures into intervals based on supply and target temperatures of hot and cold streams. The GCC approach maximizes use of less expensive utilities like cooling water while minimizing more expensive ones like steam. It also discusses determining the minimum number of heat exchangers needed and targets for total heat exchanger area.

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CHE551-Lecture4 Energy Optimization Using Pinch Analysis

The document discusses multiple utilities targeting using pinch analysis and grand composite curves. It explains that the GCC plot divides stream temperatures into intervals based on supply and target temperatures of hot and cold streams. The GCC approach maximizes use of less expensive utilities like cooling water while minimizing more expensive ones like steam. It also discusses determining the minimum number of heat exchangers needed and targets for total heat exchanger area.

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CHE 551 Advanced Topics In Chemical Engineering

Energy
Optimization Using
Pinch Analysis
Lecture 4
Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Rabiah
Multiple Utilities Targeting

z The composite curves provide the overall energy targets


without any reference as to the quantity of energy that
must be supplied by the various utility levels.
z Such information is particularly useful when a single hot
and cold utility is available for the process.
z In many industrial applications, the energy requirement
for a process can be supplied by several different utilities
such as cooling water, refrigeration and steam.

The objective is to maximize the use of the less expensive utilities and
minimize the use of the more expensive utilities.
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COMPOSITE CURVES FOR MULTIPLE UTILITIES
TARGETING

HP Stream
Temperature

T min

CW

Enthalpy
(a)
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COMPOSITE CURVES FOR MULTIPLE UTILITIES
TARGETING

Temperature HP Stream

LP

T min
T min

CW

Enthalpy
(b)

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Grand Composite Curve (GCC)

z The GCC is a plot of interval temperatures against


corresponding heat flow quantities. The temperatures
of the hot and cold process streams are divided into
interval temperatures according to the supply and
target temperatures of the hot and cold streams,
respectively.
z The GCC plot depends on the process stream
conditions as well as the minimum temperature
approach.

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Grand Composite Curve (GCC)

z The GCC approach is based on the same


stream data as used in the composite curves
but is a more appropriate aid for representing
the interface between the process and utility
system.
z The grand composite curve provides the same
overall energy target as the composite curves.

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Grand Composite Curve (GCC)
Tshifted

Hot Utility

Process Sink Profile


Heat
A Sink

C Heat Transfer
Process-to-Process
Pinch

E Heat
Heat Transfer
Source
F Process-to-Process
Process Source Profile

Cold Utility

Enthalpy
Grand Composite Curve (GCC)
For Multiple Utilities Targeting

Tshifted

HP Steam

Refrigeration

Enthalpy

(a)
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Grand Composite Curve (GCC)
For Multiple Utilities Targeting

Tshifted

HP Steam

MP Steam

Utility Pinches

Process
Pinch CW

Refrigeration

Enthalpy

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The Trade-off between Energy and Capital Costs Gives
the Optimum DT min for Minimum Cost in New
Designs

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Capital Energy Trade off for Retrofit
Applications

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Number of Heat Exchange Units
z Euler's General Network Theorem is applied to the heat exchanger
network design, the number of heat exchange units can be determined
from

U =N +LS
where
U = number of heat exchange units (including heaters and coolers),
N = number of streams (including utilities),
L = number of independent loops, and
S = number of separate components.

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Minimum Number of Heat
Exchange Units

The final network design should be achieved with a


minimum number of units to reduce the capital cost.

To minimize the number of units, the number of loops


should be zero. The most appropriate assumption for the
number of separate components, , is one. This leads to
the targeting equation

U min = N - 1
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Minimum Number of Heat
Exchange Units

If the process exhibits a pinch, the above


equation must be applied to each side of the
pinch and then added as shown below:

( ) ( )
Umin = NAbovethe pinch 1 + NBelowthe pinch 1

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Heat Exchanger Area Targets

In te r v a l
1 s tr e a m s qj
A m in = T LM i

hj
i =1 j =1

where

qj = heat exchanged by stream j in interval i

hi = heat transfer coefficient of stream j in interval i

TLM i = log mean temperature difference in interval i

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