Industrial heat pump: a case study
Industrial processes frequently generate large quantities of hot liquid streams which provide attractive opportunities for energy conservation. A hot water stream at a large chemical plant was tapped to generate more than 30,000 lbs/hr of 60 PSIG steam for process use. Through the effective use of multistage centrifugal compressor technology and efficient flash evaporator technology heat which was considered unusable was recovered and delivered to a process steam header resulting in significant energy savings. This paper describes the procedure used in evaluating the energy intensive source streams, hardware requirements needed to explore the application, and gives a discussion of economic tradeoffs in employing a major process recovery system.
- Research Organization:
- General Electric Co.
- OSTI ID:
- 5449111
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-830213-
- Journal Information:
- Energy Technol. (Wash., D.C.); (United States), Vol. 10; Conference: 10. energy technology conference, Washington, DC, USA, 28 Feb 1983
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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