Heat Integration UVa | Synthesis 10.

The Pinch 1
HEAT INTEGRATION
Synthesis
10. The Picnh
Heat Integration UVa | Synthesis 10. The Pinch
O!t"ine
Pinch
Pinch Principle
Pinch Design Method
Multiple Pinches
Quasi-Pinch
No Pinch (threshold problems)
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Pinch
Pinch: a value of the enthalpy flow in the vs! " diagram for which the
temperature difference between the composite curves is minimum!
Pinch is not a temperature# but two: one for the cold and one for the
hot composite curve!
$mplies restrictions%difficulties for heat transfer (relative to the rest of
the problem) due to reduced driving force:
&he closer the two curves the more difficult will be to transmit heat&
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Pinch
he fundamental significance of the pinch is the establishment of a
division 'separation# distribution' in the set of streams that forms
the problem:
(ome hot%cold streams or parts of streams
will be above the pinch:
"ot with presence above the hot pinch
temperature
)old with presence above the cold pinch
temperature
(ome hot%cold streams or parts of streams
will be bellow the pinch
"ot with presence bellow the hot pinch
temperature
)old with presence bellow the cold pinch
temperature
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Pinch Princi&"e
*ne pinch splits the problem in two semi-problems:
"ot semi-problem# above the pinch
+eceives a high-grade enthalpy flow from battery limits (hot utility)
No enthalpy flow leaves this semi-problem
)old semi-problem# bellow the pinch
No enthalpy flow arrives to this semi-problem from battery limits
(end a low-grade enthalpy flow towards battery limits (cold utility)
)old semi-problem acts as
a source of enthalpy
"ot semi-problem acts as
a sin, for enthalpy
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Pinch Princi&"e
$f heat is transferred across the pinch more utility will be needed
to meet the semi-problem enthalpy balance:
-s a conse.uence: $f no heat is transferred across the pinch
heating and cooling will be the minimum
Heat Integration UVa | Synthesis 10. The Pinch (
Pinch Princi&"e
"eat can be transferred across the pinch
Matching a hot stream above with a cold stream bellow the pinch (heat
can&t be trasferred from bellow to above)
/sing hot utility bellow the pinch
/sing cold utility above the pinch
Heat Integration UVa | Synthesis 10. The Pinch )
Pinch *esign +etho,
o design a minimum energy re.uirement (M0+) networ,
-void any heat transfer across the pinch:
Design each semi-problem on their side as if the other did not e1ist
2o from hardest to easiest:
(tart designing at the pinch (less driving force# minimum temperature
difference)!!!
!!!when matching odds are more numerous
and proceed from inside outwards (widening driving force)!!!
!!!as the possibilities are reduced
and this for each side!
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+!"ti&"e &inches
(everal pinches (process# utility!!!) can occur
3 pinches# 4 &semi-problems& - #5 #) and D
6imit matches to streams in the same region:
don&t use "P( in 5# but MP(
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.!asi/Pinch
$t is very difficult that all multiple
pinches present e1actly 7
min
hose very near to 7
min
are called
.uasi-pinches
5est seen in the 2)) diagram
- small flow across the .uasi-pich is
allowed (designing a M0+ networ,)
-s small as closer to 7
min
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No Pinch
hreshold problems:
Minimum temperature difference at one end
- uni.ue ,ind of utility (only-heating or only-cooling)
7
min
is often large
*nly one semi-problem
Design:
No-utility end first!!!
!!!then place utility!!!
(for start-up# control!!!)
!!!and finally the rest (middle)