A systematic approach: combining process optimisation exergy analysis and energy recovery for a better efficiency of industrial processes

Abstract

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Method combining exergy and pinch analysis for the optimisation of a methanol production process based on natural gas and recovered CO2

“…To this end, there has been a growing interest in exergy analysis in the last few years. This technique is able to identify and characterise a process' thermodynamic inefficiencies, thus assisting the engineer in the development of innovative processes (Dincer and Rosen, 2015;Gourmelon et al, 2017). The COOPERE method (COmbiner Optimisation des ProcédEs, Récupération et analyse Exergétique), developed in the Laboratoire de Génie Chimique de Toulouse (Gourmelon, 2015), lies on the combined use of exergy analysis, a case based reasoning approach (Roldan Reyes, 2012) and pinch analysis.…”