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