Tag
#utilities
2 topics across all disciplines.
Heat integration — why the plant reuses its own heat, and what that costs
Feed-effluent exchangers, the temperature approach trade-off, why steam comes at several pressures, and why a well-integrated plant is cheap to run and hard to start.
Water and effluent — the largest flow on the plant, and none of it is product
Why boiler feed water needs to be purer than anything else on site, what cooling tower chemistry is actually managing, and why effluent problems announce themselves months late.