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Heat transfer enhancement, intensification and optimisation in heat exchanger network retrofit and operation

Klemeš, J.J., Wang, Q.W., Varbanov, P.S., Zeng, M., Chin, H.H., Lal, N.S., Li, N.Q., Wang, B., Wang, X.C., Walmsley, T.G.

Original Title

Heat transfer enhancement, intensification and optimisation in heat exchanger network retrofit and operation

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

The improvement of heat recovery in the industry has traditionally been approached from two different viewpoints - Process Intensification and Process Integration. Many of the developments took the form of Heat Transfer Enhancement or Heat Integration within Heat Exchanger Networks, developing in parallel. In the past decade, however, there have been successful applications of both approaches together, resulting in cost benefits for heat-integrated retrofits. Heat Integration literature has continued to provide a variety of network modelling and retrofit approaches. Recent reviews of the area show that the mathematical-based and thermodynamic-based approaches have reached maturity within the current modelling paradigm. There are indications that the modelling concepts and frameworks need a further step-change to bridge the gap between the solutions to heat recovery problems offered by the current methods and the practical implementation in terms of real retrofit actions, leading to economically feasible reduction of energy use and emissions. The current paper takes these indications as a departure point and reviews the history and the recent developments in the areas of Heat Transfer Enhancement and the retrofit of Heat Exchanger Networks, providing a critical analysis from the viewpoint of obtaining practical solutions with positive cash flows, while minimising the issues related to operability - emissions, flexible operation and control. The analysis clearly shows the need to focus future research and development efforts on increasing model fidelity and practicality, addressing operability issues, and most importantly - development of flexible and efficient tools for communicating optimisation results to industrial practitioners and plant managers who would implement the process retrofit recommendations.

Keywords

Heat exchanger; Heat transfer enhancement; Heat exchanger network; Energy retrofit; Process integration; Process intensification; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL-NETWORKS; RESILIENT PROCESSING PLANTS; PRESSURE-DROP CORRELATIONS; MODEL-PREDICTIVE CONTROL; FLOW-RATE DISTRIBUTION; TWISTED-TAPE INSERTS; SHELL-SIDE; PINCH ANALYSIS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; OPERABILITY CONSIDERATIONS

Authors

Klemeš, J.J., Wang, Q.W., Varbanov, P.S., Zeng, M., Chin, H.H., Lal, N.S., Li, N.Q., Wang, B., Wang, X.C., Walmsley, T.G.

Released

1. 3. 2020

Publisher

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND

ISBN

1364-0321

Periodical

RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Number

120

State

United States of America

Pages from

109644

Pages to

109653

Pages count

31

URL

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364032119308512?via%3Dihub

BibTex

@article{BUT163342,
  author="Jiří {Klemeš} and Petar Sabev {Varbanov} and Hon Huin {Chin} and Bohong {Wang} and Xuechao {Wang} and Timothy Gordon {Walmsley}",
  title="Heat transfer enhancement, intensification and optimisation in heat exchanger network retrofit and operation",
  journal="RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS",
  year="2020",
  number="120",
  pages="109644--109653",
  doi="10.1016/j.rser.2019.109644",
  issn="1364-0321",
  url="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364032119308512?via%3Dihub"
}