Journal
CIRP ANNALS-MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
Volume 65, Issue 1, Pages 21-24Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.cirp.2016.04.034
Keywords
Energy efficiency; Environment; Sustainable development
Funding
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/I033351/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/I033351/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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One third of energy consumption is attributable to the industrial sector, with as much as half ultimately wasted as heat. Consequently, research has focused on technologies for harvesting this waste heat energy, however, the adoption of such technologies can be costly with long payback time. A decision support tool is presented which computes the compatibility of waste heat source(s) and sink(s), namely the exergy balance and temporal availability, along with economic and environmental benefits of available heat exchanger technologies to propose a streamlined and optimised heat recovery strategy. Substantial improvement in plant energy efficiency together with reduction in the payback time for heat recovery has been demonstrated in the included case study. (C) 2016 The Author.
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