PINCH TECHNOLOGY

Figure 16.1 A simple heat recovery problem with one hot stream and one cold
stream
Figure 16.1 A simple heat recovery problem with one hot stream and one cold
stream
Figure 16.2 A simple Flowsheet with two hot streams and two cold streams
Figure 16.3 The hot streams can be combined to obtain a composite stream.
Figure 16.4 The cold streams can be combined to obtain a composite cold stream.
Figure 16.5 Plotting the hot and cold composite curves together allows the targets
for hot and cold utility to be obtained.
Figure 16.5 Plotting the hot and cold composite curves together allows the targets
for hot and cold utility to be obtained.
Figure 16.7 The composite curves set the energy target and the location of the pinch.
Figure 16.8 Three forms of cross pinch heat transfer.
Figure 16.9 A design that achieves the energy target.
EXAMPLE 16.1:
The flowsheet for a low-temperature distillation process is shown in Figure 16.19.
Calculate the minimum hot and cold utility requirements and the location of the
pinch assuming ΔTmin = 5◦C.