Faculty of Chemical Engineering

CPE 633 – Process Engineering II

Tutorial 3

Question 1

Evolve the heat exchanger network in Figure 1 to simplify its structure.

Figure 1 HEN Design for a process

a. Remove the smallest heat recovery unit from the network by exploiting
the degree of freedom in a loop.

b. Recalculate the network temperatures and identify any violationsof the

Tmin = 10oC constraint.

c. Restore the original Tmin = 10oC throughout the network by exploiting

a utility path.
Question 2

Consider the grid diagram shown in Figure 2.

o o
4 159 C 77 C 2.285
o o o
200 C 159 C 80 C 0.204
5
o o
159 C 90 C 0.538
6
o o
123 C 18 C 1 0.933
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o 118 C
193 C 149 C
2 1.961
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286 C 189 C 1.796
3

Qcmin = 81.8kW
QHmin = 139.6kW

Figure 2 Grid Diagram for a process

a. Design a HEN for MER.

b. Eliminate any stream splits below the pinch while maintaining the same
number of units by allowing a small violation of Tmin constraint in one
exchanger.

Question 3

The process stream data for a heat recovery network problem is given in Table 1.

Table 1 Stream Data

Stream Type Supply Temp. Target Heat Capacity
Ts (oC) Temp. Tt Flowrate
(oC) (kW/oC)
1 Cold 60 180 3.0
2 Hot 180 40 2.0
3 Cold 30 150 2.2
4 Hot 140 40 4.0

By using Tmin = 10 oC, design a maximum energy recovery network.

Figure 3 shows the PTA with DTmin =10oC

QHmin = 60 kW
185oC

30 175 oC

0 Pinch 145 oC

30 135 oC

86 65 oC

35 oC

QCmin = 200 kW

a. Design a maximum energy recovery network.

b. In response to a site requirement for Very Low Pressure (VLP) Steam, steam
raising by process heat recovery is considered. The maximum steam raising
duty possible at a steam pressure corresponding to an interval temperature
of 115oC is 46 kW. Design the network to achieve this maximum duty. (Hint:
Consider the VLP steam raised at a constant temperature cold stream with
infinite CP (∞); and VLP steam raising create a utility pinch.

c. Preliminary costing of the network indicates that the capital is too high to
justify maximum steam raising. By identifying a path through the network
for passing heat across lower pinch, eliminate the smaller of the two VLP
steam raisers to simplify the network.