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This document discusses heat exchanger network design using pinch analysis. It covers determining energy targets, developing a design grid diagram showing process streams, starting the network design from the pinch and moving away to satisfy pinch rules, using CP inequality to select streams for heat exchange, splitting streams if needed, temperature interval analysis, the heat cascade principle for target prediction, and an example problem with hot and cold end design.

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CHE551 Lecture5

This document discusses heat exchanger network design using pinch analysis. It covers determining energy targets, developing a design grid diagram showing process streams, starting the network design from the pinch and moving away to satisfy pinch rules, using CP inequality to select streams for heat exchange, splitting streams if needed, temperature interval analysis, the heat cascade principle for target prediction, and an example problem with hot and cold end design.

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CHE 551 Advanced Topics In Chemical Engineering

Energy
Optimization Using
Pinch Analysis
Lecture 5
Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Rabiah

Homework 1
construction of composite curves

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Homework 1
Determining the energy targets

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Heat Exchanger Network Design for


Maximum Energy Recovery
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The heat exchanger network design procedure is based


upon pinch analysis principles and is known as the Pinch
Design Method.

The task is to match the hot and cold process streams


connecting unit operation systems with each other or with
external utilities in a heat exchanger network to satisfy the
energy targets.

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Heat Exchanger Network Design


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The pinch design method utilizes the concept of


minimum energy targets to design the heat exchanger
network. This is performed on the principle of
designing each system above and below the pinch
separately.

The first step in this method requires development of a


design grid diagram showing all the process streams.

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Heat Exchanger Network Design


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It should be noted that the region near the pinch is the


most constrained region and generally has the smallest
temperature difference between the hot and cold
streams.

For this reason, it is easier to start from the pinch and


work towards a region where there is greater freedom
rather than in the opposite direction. Therefore,[ the
design of the network should start from the pinch
and then move away to satisfy the pinch rules that
were discussed previously].
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The pinch design method


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CP inequality
(This rule is used to select the streams that should be
matched first for heat exchange).

The heat capacity flow-rate (CP) of the stream leaving


the pinch needs to be greater than the CP of stream
approaching the pinch, or

CPout CPin
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The pinch design method


CP inequality
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Above the pinch, it is necessary to observe the


inequality criterion:

CPhot CPcold
z

Below the pinch, the necessary criterion is:

CPhot CPcold
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The pinch design method

To satisfy the CP inequality rule, some stream


splitting may be required.

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Example

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Temperature Interval Analysis

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Temperature Interval Analysis

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The Heat Cascade Principle Target


Prediction by Problem Table Analysis

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The Heat Cascade Principle Target


Prediction by Problem Table Analysis

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Example Problem Stream Data, Showing


Pinch Grid diagram-

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Example Problem Hot End Design

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Example Problem Hot End Design

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Example Problem Cold End Design

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Example Problem Cold End Design

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Example Problem Completed Design

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