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networking
Basics of energy balance
Basics of energy recovery
Pinch concept
Unsteady state Energy
Balance
In a batch process
In processes where rate of energy
generation or removal is unsteady
Differential energy balance is to be
set up
Differential energy balance
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1.Applying this condition at the pinch, stream 1
can be matched with stream 4, but not with 3.
Matching streams 1 and 4 and transferring the
full amount of heat required to bring stream 1
to the pinch temperature gives:
Network Design Below The
Pinch
Minimum No of Exchangers
In Figure 3.27 it is clear that there is
scope for reducing the number of
exchangers.
Exchanger D can be deleted and the
heat loads of the cooler and heater
increased to bring streams 2 and 3 to
their target temperatures.
Heat would cross the pinch and the
consumption of the utilities would be
increased.
Whether the revised network would be
better, more economic, would depend
on the relative cost of capital and
utilities.
For any network there will be an
optimum design that gives the least
annual cost: capital charges plus utility
and other operating costs.
To find the optimum design it will be
necessary to cost a number of
alternative designs, seeking a
compromise between the capital
costs, determined by the number and
size of the exchangers, and the utility
costs, determined by the heat
recovery achieved.
For simple networks Holmann (1971)
has shown that the minimum number of
exchangers is given by:
Summary For Optimum design of Network