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Advanced Research on Heat Exchangers Networks and Heat Recovery

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "J: Thermal Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2024 | Viewed by 1342

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Stanislav Boldyryev

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Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: heat exchanger networks; heat transfers; energy saving; heat recovery; process integration
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Dr. Bohong Wang

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National-Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Harbour Oil & Gas Storage and Transportation Technology, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan 316022, China
Interests: process integration; oil and gas; energy systems analysis; supply chain management; pipeline engineering
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Dr. Timothy Gordon Walmsley

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School of Engineering Academic, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Interests: energy; process integration; heat pumps; digital twins; heat and mass transfer
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Energy is the one of the most important resources for modern society. The use of energy defines the paradigm of economic development around the globe, and energy efficiency is the one of the key issues for both economic efficiency and environmental impact. Heat exchanger networks in different industries can recover the process heat energy, avoiding additional fuel consumption in furnaces and electricity consumption for cooling cycles. Heat exchanger network synthesis, retrofit, and optimization are long-term developing goals that face new challenges today. Industrial energy transition to renewable energies and the low carbon agenda lead to the formulation of new objectives for heat exchanger networks and heat recovery. Both theoretical aspects and technoeconomic criteria affect future industrial energy systems, where heat recovery plays a key role. This Special Issue is aimed at new advancements and developments in heat exchanger networks, including but not limited to network synthesis and optimization, thermodynamic and thermal design, operation and maintenance, networks for industry electrification, digital twins of heat recovery systems, hydrogen-containing recovery systems, and the integration of renewable energies to heat recovery networks.

Dr. Stanislav Boldyryev
Dr. Bohong Wang
Dr. Timothy Gordon Walmsley
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Keywords

  • heat exchanger networks
  • design and retrofit of recovery systems
  • network modeling and optimization
  • energy saving
  • operation, maintenance, prediction

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Simultaneous Optimization of Work and Heat Exchange Networks
by Nidret Ibrić, Chao Fu and Truls Gundersen
Energies 2024, 17(7), 1753; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17071753 - 06 Apr 2024
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This paper introduces a simultaneous optimization approach to synthesizing work and heat exchange networks (WHENs). The proposed work and heat integration (WHI) superstructure enables different thermodynamic paths of pressure and temperature-changing streams. The superstructure is connected to a heat exchanger network (HEN) superstructure, [...] Read more.
This paper introduces a simultaneous optimization approach to synthesizing work and heat exchange networks (WHENs). The proposed work and heat integration (WHI) superstructure enables different thermodynamic paths of pressure and temperature-changing streams. The superstructure is connected to a heat exchanger network (HEN) superstructure, enabling the heat integration of hot and cold streams identified within the WHI superstructure. A two-step solution strategy is proposed, consisting of initialization and design steps. In the first step, a thermodynamic path model based on the WHI superstructure is combined with a model for simultaneous optimization and heat integration. This nonlinear programming (NLP) model aims to minimize operating expenditures and provide an initial solution for the second optimization step. In addition, hot and cold streams are identified, enabling additional model reduction. In the second step of the proposed solution approach, a thermodynamic path model is combined with the modified HEN model to minimize the network’s total annualized cost (TAC). The proposed mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) model is validated by several examples, exploring the impact of the equipment costing and annualization factor on the optimal network design. The results from these case studies clearly indicate that the new synthesis approach proposed in this paper produces solutions that are consistently similar to or better than the designs presented in the literature using other methodologies. Full article
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Improving the Economic Efficiency of Heat Pump Integration into Distillation Columns of Process Plants Applying Different Pressures of Evaporators and Condensers
by Stanislav Boldyryev, Mariia Ilchenko and Goran Krajačić
Energies 2024, 17(4), 951; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17040951 - 18 Feb 2024
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The electrification of process industries is one of the main challenges when building a low-carbon society since they consume huge amounts of fossil fuels, generating different emissions. Heat pumps are some of the key players in the industrial sector of the carbon-neutral market. [...] Read more.
The electrification of process industries is one of the main challenges when building a low-carbon society since they consume huge amounts of fossil fuels, generating different emissions. Heat pumps are some of the key players in the industrial sector of the carbon-neutral market. This study proposes an approach to improve the economic feasibility of heat pumps within process plants. Initial energy targeting with grand composite curves was used and supplemented with the detailed design of an evaporator and a compressor for different condensation and evaporation pressures. The trade-off between the capital cost of the heat pump and the electricity cost was investigated, and optimal configurations were selected. This case study investigates the gas fractioning unit of a polymer plant, where three heat pumps are integrated into distillation columns. The results demonstrate that the heat recovery is 174 MW and requires an additional 37.9 MW of electricity to reduce the hot utility by 212 MW. The selection of the evaporation and condensation pressures of heat pumps allows 21.5 M EUR/y to be saved for 7 years of plant operation. The emission-saving potential is estimated at 1.89 ktCO2/y. Full article
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