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Process Integration

The exhaustive list of topics in Process Integration Problems in which we provide Help with Homework Assignment and Help with Project is as follows:

  • Process Intensification and Process Integration(PI).
  • Areas of application and techniques available for PI
  • Onion diagram.
  • Pinch Technology-an overview:
    • How it is different from energy auditing
    • Roles of thermodynamic laws
    • Problems addressed by Pinch Technology.
  • Key steps of Pinch Technology:
    • Concept of ?Tmin
    • Data Extraction
    • Targeting
    • Designing
    • Optimization-Supertargeting
  • Basic Elements of Pinch Technology:
    • Grid Diagram
    • Composite curve
    • Problem Table Algorithm
    • Grand Composite Curve.
  • Targeting of Heat Exchanger Network:
    • Energy Targeting
    • Area Targeting
    • Number of units targeting
    • Shell Targeting and Cost targeting.
  • Designing of HEN:
    • Pinch Design Methods, Heuristic rules, stream splitting, design of maximum energy recovery(MER).
    • Use of multiple utilities and concept of utility pinches, Design for multiple utilities pinches, Concept of threshold problems and design strategy.
    • Network evolution and evaluation-identification of loops and paths, loop breaking and path relaxation.
  • Design tools to achieve targets
  • Driving force plot
  • Remaining problem analysis
  • Diverse pinch concepts
  • MCp ratio heuristics.
  • Targeting and designing of HENs with different ?Tmin values
  • Variation of cost of utility, fixed cost, TAC, number of shells and total area with ?Tmin Capital-Energy trade-offs.
    • Process modifications-Plus/Minus principles, Heat Engines and appropriate placement of heat engines relative to pinch.
    • Heat pumps, Appropriate placement of heat pumps relative to pinch.
    • Steam Rankin Cycle design, Gas turbine cycle design, Integration of Steam and Gas turbine with process.
    • Refrigeration systems, Stand alone and integrated evaporators.
    • Heat integrations and proper placement of Reactors for batch Processes as well as continuous processes.
  • Retrofit of distillation systems.
  • Case studies