Design Toolbox for Energy Efficiency in the Process Industry
Reference Number
EP/G059071/1
Title
Design Toolbox for Energy Efficiency in the Process Industry
Status
Completed
Energy Categories
Energy Efficiency(Industry)
Research Types
Basic and strategic applied research
Science and Technology Fields
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Chemical Engineering)
UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation
Not Cross-cutting
Systems Analysis related to energy R&D
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Other sociological economical and environmental impact of energy)
Systems Analysis related to energy R&D
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Other sociological economical and environmental impact of energy)
Principal Investigator
Professor E Pistikopoulos
Chemical Engineering
Imperial College London
Chemical Engineering
Imperial College London
Award Type
Standard
Funding Source
EPSRC
Start Date
01 October 2009
End Date
30 September 2013
Duration
48 months
Total Grant Value
£485,055
Industrial Sectors
Process engineering
Region
London
Programme
Energy : Energy
Investigators
Principal Investigator
Professor E Pistikopoulos, Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London
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Objectives
Linked to grant EP/G059195/1
Abstract
Reducing energy consumption and emissions in industrial plants in a cost-effective way is of great significance for the sustainability of the process industry as well as for tackling climate change and ensuring national energy security. While major advances towards this goal have been made over the last fifteen years in the process industry, there is a great need, especially in the current financial and energy climate, for another wave of step-change improvements. This calls for a holistic, quantitative and systematic analysis of the current energy and process options to identify sustainable, cost-effective opportunities for energy efficiency in a synergistic manner with business objectives, carbon foot-printing and environmental criteria and operability concerns.In this proposal, the development of a design toolbox for the optimal and sustainable delivery of energy efficiency solutions in the process industry is described. The toolbox comprises generic methodologies and tools for(i) the identification of optimal retrofit/design opportunities for energy efficiency, (ii) the analysis of the process/energy integration opportunities of the process with centralized and distributed energy systems, (iii) the delivery of guaranteed operability for the design options, and (iv) trade-off detailed analysis of the various options regarding cost/profit, energy consumption environmental impact
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