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Exercise 2 1 MER Heat Exchanger Network: Espoo 2016

This document provides exercises on process integration, simulation, and optimization involving a heat exchanger network design problem. It includes: 1. Designing a maximum energy recovery (MER) heat exchanger network to meet utility targets using the pinch design method. 2. Using a problem table algorithm to identify heat surplus and deficit intervals, draw a heat cascade diagram, and determine minimum utilities and pinch temperature. 3. Drawing the grand composite curve using HINT software and choosing the most efficient steam usage. 4. Investigating using a heat pump to reduce steam and cooling water needs, including drawing it in the grand composite curve.

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Exercise 2 1 MER Heat Exchanger Network: Espoo 2016

This document provides exercises on process integration, simulation, and optimization involving a heat exchanger network design problem. It includes: 1. Designing a maximum energy recovery (MER) heat exchanger network to meet utility targets using the pinch design method. 2. Using a problem table algorithm to identify heat surplus and deficit intervals, draw a heat cascade diagram, and determine minimum utilities and pinch temperature. 3. Drawing the grand composite curve using HINT software and choosing the most efficient steam usage. 4. Investigating using a heat pump to reduce steam and cooling water needs, including drawing it in the grand composite curve.

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Ene-47.

5130 Process Integration, Simulation and Optimization (3 ECTS credits) P


Espoo 2016

EXERCISE 2

1 MER heat exchanger network


Design a so-called MER (Maximum Energy Recovery) heat exchanger network using the
Pinch Design Method. Check that the utility consumption targets found in exercise 1) is met.
What is the minimum number of units for a MER (Maximum Energy Recovery) network
and does it match with the value given by the Euler method?
We have the following streams (the same as in Exercise 1):
stream # type cp · ṁ [kJ/K · s] Tstart [◦ C] Ttarget [◦ C]
1 hot 3.5 180 60
2 hot 1.5 140 30
3 cold 2.0 45 115
4 cold 5.0 70 160
With a global ∆Tmin = 10 ◦ C.

2 Problem table algorithm


a)
Make a stream table where the temperatures have been adjusted for ∆Tmin .

b)
Sort the temperatures and draw the streams in a diagram where the temperature intervals can
be identified. Which intervals have heat surplus and which intervals have heat deficit?

c)
Draw the heat-cascade and determine the minimum utility consumptions and the pinch tem-
perature.

3 HINT software
a)
Draw the grand composite curve of the stream data in exercise 1 using HINT. Check that the
cascade you calculated earlier are in accordance with the grand composite curve drawn by
HINT.

b)
Steam is available at two levels:
• High pressure, 12.5 bars and 190 ◦ C
• Low pressure, 2.7 bars and 130 ◦ C
Choose the most efficient usage of the steam and draw it in the grand composite curve. How
much low pressure and high pressure steam are we using?
4 Heat pump
We want to investigate if a heat pump can reduce the steam and cooling water needs. The
available heat pump is an electric motor CCC (closed compression cycle) heat pump.
QC
heat sink

Condenser
Compressor

Expansion valve W

Evaporator

heat source
QE

The heat pump characteristics are:


• Evaporation temperature 60 ◦ C

• Sink temperature 125 ◦ C


QC QC
• Coefficient of performance, COP = W ≈ QC −QE =3

a)
What is the approximate reduction in low pressure steam and cooling water consumption that
we can expect?

b)
Draw the heat pump in the grand composite curve.

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