Work and heat integration: An emerging research area

Chao Fu, Matias Vikse and Truls Gundersen

Energy, 2018, vol. 158, issue C, 796-806

Abstract: The extension from Heat Integration (HI) and design of Heat Exchanger Networks (HENs) to including heating and cooling effects from pressure changing equipment has been referred to as Work and Heat Integration and design of Work and Heat Exchange Networks (WHENs). This is an emerging research area of Process Synthesis, however, WHENs is a considerably more complex design task than HENs. A key challenge is the fact that temperature changes (related to heat) and pressure changes (related to work) of process streams are interacting. Changes in inlet temperatures to compressors and expanders resulting from heat integration will influence work consumption and production. Likewise, pressure changes by compression and expansion will change the temperatures of process streams, thus affecting heat integration.

Keywords: Work and heat integration; Work and heat exchange network; Compressor; Expander; Exergy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2018.06.030

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