Heat Transfer Enhancement in Chemical Processes

1st Edition - August 1, 2024
Author: Lili Sun
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 5 6 0 - 1
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Heat Transfer Enhancement in Chemical Processes combines process technologies with heat exchange equipment to study heat transfer enhancement. The book provides guidance for the progress of process technologies and the application of enhanced heat transfer equipment. It analyzes the basic principles of heat transfer and summarizes the theories and methods of heat transfer enhancement, while also focusing on three representative processes in petrochemical industry, including oil refining, aromatics, and ethylene production. The book summarizes in a systematical way the practical application of heat transfer enhancement in the petrochemical industry, from the equipment components, the processes, and the whole plant.

1. Introduction

1.1 Significance of heat transfer enhancement

1.2 Progress in heat transfer enhancement technologies

1.3 Engineering application of heat transfer enhancement

Part I Theories and methods of heat transfer enhancement　

2. Basic principles of heat transfer enhancement　

2.2 Overview　

2.3 Heat transfer enhancement without phase change　

2.4 Boiling heat transfer enhancement　

2.5 Condensation heat transfer enhancement　

3. Fouling resistance and suppression methods　

3.1 Fouling　

3.2 Fouling resistance　

3.3 Cleaning technologies　

4. Heat exchange network synthesis technology　

4.1 Concept of pinch point and its determination　

4.2 Grand composite curve and balanced grand composite curve　

4.3 multiple pinch points and no pinch point　

4.4 Pinch point design method for heat exchange network　

4.5 Optimization of heat exchange network　

4.6 Optimal design of heat exchange network with threshold　

5. Components and equipment commonly used for heat transfer enhancement　

5.1 Shell and tube heat exchanger　

5.2 Plate heat exchanger　

5.3 Tubular furnace

Part II Heat transfer enhancement in typical processes　

6. Heat transfer enhancement in typical oil refining units　

6.1 Crude distillation unit　

6.2 Fluid catalytic cracking unit　

6.3 Hydrocracking unit　

6.4 Hydrofining unit　

6.5 Heavy oil hydrotreating unit　

6.6 Hydrogen Plant　

6.7 Delayed coking unit　

6.8 S Zorb unit　

6.9 Alkylation unit　

7. Heat transfer enhancement in aromatics complex　

7.1 Prehydrogenation and catalytic reforming unit　

7.2 Aromatics extraction unit　

7.3 Disproportionation unit　

7.4 Xylene isomerization unit　

7.5 PX separation and xylene fractionation unit　

8. Heat transfer enhancement in typical ethylene plant and its downstream units　

8.1 Ethylene cracking　

8.2 Ethylene separation　

8.3 EO/EG unit　

8.4 Propylene oxide unit　

8.5 Styrene plant　

8.6 C₅ separation unit　

8.7 Butyl rubber plant　

9. Heat transfer enhancement and plant-wide energy conservation　

9.1 Innovative and systematic method for energy conservation　

9.2 Global optimization design of heat integration　

9.3 Typical cases of plant-wide heat transfer enhancement

Lili Sun

Sun Lili is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, expert in petrochemical engineering technology and management, national engineering survey and design master, and fellow of Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China (CIESC). She is currently Chairman of Sinopec Engineering (Group) Co., Ltd. and Executive Director and Director of the Technical Committee of SINOPEC Engineering Incorporation. She also serves as Vice Chairman of Chemical Process Intensification Committee of CIESC, President of Beijing Petroleum Society, and standing member of the 8th Committee of Beijing Association of Science and Technology. Sun Lili has been committed to the research and practice of petrochemical engineering technology, design and management for years. She has put forward the engineering management idea of integration and co-existence, and constructed a whole-process and multi-dimensional integrated management model for petrochemical projects. She has carried out process innovation based on intensification technology, and developed the high-efficiency and environmentally-friendly integrated design technology for aromatics, filling in the domestic gap in the engineering innovation of independent aromatics technology. She has developed a series of engineering technologies for the clean and efficient conversion of crude oils, making major breakthroughs in the integrated innovation of refining technology. She has developed the key technology for high acid natural gas purification, solving the worldwide problem of safe and efficient purification of high acid natural gas on a large scale. She has also led the engineering design and construction of many milestone refining and petrochemical projects such as China’s first Aromatics Complex using independent technology, China’s first refinery with a single train capacity of 10 million tons per year and the world's second largest high acid natural gas purification plant. Sun Lili has won 2 Grand Prizes and 2 Second Prizes of National Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 Grand Prize and 10 First Prizes of Provincial and Ministerial Science and Technology Progress Award, Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation, Hou Debang Chemical Science and Technology Achievement Award, and special government allowances of the State Council. She has been granted 38 patents, and has published 4 monographs and more than 50 academic papers.

Affiliations and expertise

Sinopec Engineering (Group) Co., Ltd. China