New Industrial Heat Pump Applications to Vegetable Drying (Phase I Final Report)
The food industry (SIC code 2034) is considered one of the promising industrial sectors for advanced heat pump placement and the application of pinch technology. The site selected for this study is a vegetable dehydration plant and the participating utility is PacifiCorp. The objective of this study is to further identify the energy savings potential through advanced heat pumps and other energy conservation methods developed in the context of pinch technology. This project sponsored by DOE's Office of Industrial Technologies was directed primarily towards more efficient utilization of heat pumps by improved integration into industrial processes. Though originally developed for optimizing heat exchange networks (HEN), pinch technology was applied to the integration of the entire range of process components including heat exchangers, heat pumps, heat engines, and various unit processes such as distillation columns, evaporation trains, and driers. Pinch technology is gaining recognition as a valuable process design tool and has pointed the way to many energy-saving ideas in the process industries. An introduction to pinch technology is provided in Appendix A.
- Research Organization:
- Utah Power and Light Comapny, Salt Lake City, UT (United States); TENSA Services, Inc., Houston, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- FC07-89ID12859
- OSTI ID:
- 5745115
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ID/12859--1; ON: DE91013697
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
320303* -- Energy Conservation
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42 ENGINEERING
420400 -- Engineering-- Heat Transfer & Fluid Flow
DISTILLATION
DOCUMENT TYPES
ECONOMICS
ENERGY CONSERVATION
ENERGY EXPENSES
ENGINES
FOOD INDUSTRY
HEAT ENGINES
HEAT EXCHANGERS
HEAT PUMPS
INDUSTRY
PROGRESS REPORT
SEPARATION PROCESSES
320303* -- Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization-- Industrial & Agricultural Processes-- Equipment & Processes
42 ENGINEERING
420400 -- Engineering-- Heat Transfer & Fluid Flow
DISTILLATION
DOCUMENT TYPES
ECONOMICS
ENERGY CONSERVATION
ENERGY EXPENSES
ENGINES
FOOD INDUSTRY
HEAT ENGINES
HEAT EXCHANGERS
HEAT PUMPS
INDUSTRY
PROGRESS REPORT
SEPARATION PROCESSES