Heat pump integration in chemical separation processes - an overview

Increasing energy demand, consequently high crude oil prices and growing concern for pollution have stimulated intense research in improving energy efficiency of the process technologies. In this light, the heat pump has emerged as a key component in separation technology with great potential for energy saving. Heat pump is advice that can increase the temperature of a waste-heat source to a temperature where the waste heat becomes useful. The waste heat can then replace purchased energy and reduced energy cost and consequently will reduce the environmental pollution (such as CO2, SO2 and etc.). This paper aims at providing an overview of the potential application of the heat pumps and include a case study example for distillation column in petrochemical industry.

کلیدواژه ها:

Chemical process ، Heat pump ، Energy saving ، CO2 reduction