Journal
PROCESSES
Volume 10, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/pr10091861
Keywords
distillation column; heat exchanger network; heat integration; grand composite curve; pinch temperature; energy saving
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21736008]
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This paper presents an insightful analysis of heat integration of distillation into the overall process considering the change of operating pressure. Rules to identify the best operating pressure that minimize the overall energy consumption are proposed. The result indicates that the hot utility of the overall process can be reduced by 758 kW when the column pressure is lowered by 260 kPa.
Distillation is important to chemical processes but it is energy intensive, and its optimization is of great significance to energy savings and emissions reduction. Varying the operating pressures of distillation columns could assist heat integration of distillation columns into the overall process, thereby reducing energy consumption. However, influences of varying column pressures on the energy profiles of the overall process have not been systematically analyzed in previous studies. This paper presents an insightful analysis of heat integration of distillation into the overall process considering the change of operating pressure. Firstly, effects of changing the operating pressure of a distillation column on its own utility requirements and the related process streams are studied. Next, such effects are graphically represented and incorporated into the grand composite curve (GCC). The change tendencies of the GCC, pinch temperature, and total utility consumption are analyzed and presented. On this basis, rules to identify the best operating pressure that minimize the overall energy consumption are proposed. A continuous reforming unit in a petrochemical enterprise is quantitatively analyzed to verify the obtained rules. The result indicates that the hot utility of the overall process can be reduced by 758 kW when the column pressure is lowered by 260 kPa.
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