CDB4313 – HEAT INTEGRATION

APPLICATION OF PINCH ANALYSIS

SOFTWARE: HINT

CC and PTA
GCC and Multiple Utilities Placement
HEN Design for MER
Loop and Path

erniza.rozali@utp.edu.my
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of this course, students shall be able to:

1. Perform targeting exercise to determine the minimum utility requirements

and maximum heat recovery possible for a process using composite curve
or problem table algorithm

2. Design heat exchanger network for achieving maximum energy recovery or

minimum total cost using pinch analysis technique

3. Apply pinch analysis software to perform heat integration and heat

exchanger network design that is cost competitive and taking into account
of sustainability factors

4. Analyze the potential for heat and power integration of a process and the
possible implementation options, and to screen the options using cost
effective strategy

5. Perform correct data extraction from process flowsheet for the purpose of
performing pinch analysis
 HINT Software

• An educational software for heat exchanger network design

with the pinch method
• Freeware by University of Valladolid, Spain
 COMPOSITE CURVES &
PROBLEM TABLE ALGORITHM
 CC & PTA
Enter streams data

Extracted Streams Data

Supply Target
Heat Capacity
Temperature Temperature Load
Stream Type Flowrate
(°C) (°C) (kW)
(kW/oC)

1 Hot 170 60 330 3

2 Hot 150 30 180 1.5
3 Cold 20 135 230 2
4 Cold 80 140 240 4
 CC & PTA
Enter streams data

Enter stream
data and click
“Add”
 CC & PTA
Enter streams data

Enter final
stream data
and click “OK”
 CC & PTA
Enter streams data

Check stream
data
 CC & PTA
Specify ∆Tmin

Specify ∆Tmin
CC & PTA
View CC Results

Click to see
CC plot
CC & PTA
View PTA Results

Click to see
Heat
Cascade
results
 CC & PTA
Effect of ∆Tmin

Change to see effects of

different ∆Tmin on energy
targets
HEN DESIGN FOR MER
 HEN Design for MER
Feasibility criteria and feasible matches

Click
“Streams” →
“Feasibility” →
“Feasible
matches”
 HEN Design for MER
Feasibility criteria and feasible matches

Click
“Streams” →
“Feasibility” →
“Above
Pinch/Below
Pinch”
 HEN Design for MER
Feasibility criteria and feasible matches

Click to match
the streams, if the
match is feasible,
HE will be added,
click “OK”
 HEN Design for MER
Feasibility criteria and feasible matches

For infeasible
match, error
message will
come out
HEN Design for MER
All feasible matches

Purple color
indicates that the
stream has been
Satisfy the duty of completely
other streams with satisfied.
heater/cooler
 HEN Design for MER
Add cooler/heater
Press “ctrl” +
double-click the
related stream

Select this and

click “OK”,
heater will be
added to C1
HEN Design for MER
Add cooler/heater

Select this and

click “OK”,
cooler will be
added to H2
HEN Design for MER
Completed design
 HEN Design
Working Session (from Lecture 1 and 3)

Stream data table

Heat
Supply Target
Stream No Capacity
Temperature Temperature
and Type Flowrate
(°C) (°C)
(kW/°C)
1 Hot 180 80 20
2 Hot 130 40 40
3 Cold 60 100 80
4 Cold 30 120 36

ΔTmin = 10 ºC

1) Determine the minimum energy targets

2) Design a Network for Maximum Energy Recovery
 HEN Design
Working Session 4

Maximum Energy Recovery Network

CP
80 º 180 º
3 1 20
STEP 2
40 º 43 º 70 º 130 º
C 1 2 2 40
120 kW
STEP 3 STEP 4
STEP 1 STEP 5
60 ºC 90 º 100 º
3 2 H1 80
2400 kW 800 kW
STEP 6
30 º 60 º 115.6 º 120 º 36
4 1 3 H2
1080 kW 2000 kW 160 kW
 Stream Splitting
Stream Working
data Session 5 (from Lecture 3)

Supply Target Heat Capacity

Stream Type Temperture Temperture Flow rate
TT (oC) TT (oC) (KW oC-1)
1 Hot 750 350 45
2 Hot 550 250 40
3 Cold 300 900 43

4 Cold 200 550 20

ΔTmin = 50 ºC
Tmin = 50 oC
The pinch
Q =is 9200
at 550kW
ºC / 500 ºC
Hmin
QHmin = 9200 QCmin = 6400
QCmin = 6400 kW
Design a network for maximum energy recovery
Design a network for maximum energy recovery
 Stream Splitting
Feasible match

No feasible
match!
 Stream Splitting
Select stream for splitting

Split this stream

Stream Splitting
Specify CP ratio

Need to specify
one of the CP
 Stream Splitting
Feasible matches after splitting
Stream Splitting
Completed design
 Stream Splitting
Working Session 5

Network Design
CP
CP=40 750o
350o 358.9o 550o
45 C
400
1 CP=5
40 250o 400o 550o 2
C
6000 900o
300 500o
43 3 o H
9200
8600 8000
200o 500o 550o
20 4

6000 1000
GRAND COMPOSITE CURVES &
MULTIPLE UTILITIES PLACEMENT
 GCC
View GCC plot

Click to see
GCC plot
 GCC
Specify available utilities

Click “Utilities”
→ “Add”

Specify all
utilities

Click “+”
 GCC
Multiple utilities placement

Click
“Combine” to
place multiple
utilities
 GCC
Multiple utilities placement

Total amount
of utility that
has been
placed

Drag to
maximise
lower cost
utility
 GCC
Multiple utilities placement

Complete All utilities

GCC with have been
utilities fulfilled

Amount of
each utility
placed
GCC and Utilities Placement
Working Session 3 (from Lecture 2)

ΔTmin = 40 °C
Stream No. Supply Target Heat
and type temperature temperature capacity
Ts (°C) Tt (°C) flowrate CP
( kW/°C)
1 hot 450 60 60
2 hot 320 65 20
3 cold 100 500 40
4 cold 50 350 55

Utililites available:

Steam Tin= 260°C, Tout= 260°C

Cooling water Tout= 20°C, Tin= 10°C
Flue gas Tin= 770 °C
GCC and Utilities Placement
Working Session 3

T*
750 Flue gas H=5,749 kW
CP=11.27 kW/ °C
600

450

Steam H= 1,801 kW

300 T*= 240°C

T*=240 °C
150
CW H=3550 kW
0
0 2000 4000 6000 H
LOOP AND PATH
Loop & Path
The MER design
 Loop & Path
Locate the loop

Click “Loop
& Paths” →
“Search”
 Loop & Path
Breaking the loop

Click “Loop
& Paths” →
“Add”

Remove
smallest HE,
click “OK”
Loop & Path
Breaking the loop

Error message to
specify the HE with
∆Tmin violation
 Loop & Path
Locate the path

Click “Loop
& Paths” →
“Search”
 Loop & Path
Restore ∆Tmin using path
C

Add related HE
within the path
that need to
be adjusted to
restore ∆Tmin
Click “Loop
& Paths” →
“Analysis” Run analysis and see
results. Need to do
interpolation to
determine the exact
enthalpy of each
related HE in order to
C obtain TH,out for HE1 at
74.44˚C.
Note: Manual
calculation is easier
though!
Loop & Path
New design
 HEN Optimisation
Working Session 7 (from Lecture 4)
MER design at ∆Tmin = 20˚C

CP
60 º 120 º 200 º 400 º
C 2 4 0.3
18 MW
40 º 56 º 120º 210 º
C 1 3 0.5
8 MW

20 º 100 ºC 160 º
1 2 0.4
32 MW 24 MW

100 º 175 º 275 º 300 º

3 4 0.6
H
45 MW 60 MW 15 MW
 HEN Optimisation
Working Session 7
New design

CP
60 º 145 º 400 º
C 4 0.3
25.5
40 º 68º 180º 210 º
C 1 3 0.5
14

20 º 160 º
1 160 º 0.4
56

100 º 125º 252.5º 300 º 0.6

3 4 H
15 76.5 28.5
 HEN Optimisation
Working Session 7
Final design

CP
60 º 120 º 400 º
C 4 0.3
18
40 º 98º 210 º
C 1 0.5
29

20 º 160 º
1 0.4
56

100 º 100 º 240º 300 º 0.6

4 H
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