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A decision support system for waste heat recovery in manufacturing

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posted on 2016-04-20, 12:47 authored by Alessandro Simeone, Yang Luo, Elliot WoolleyElliot Woolley, Shahin RahimifardShahin Rahimifard, Claudio Boer
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.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

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CIRP Annals Manufacturing Technology

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SIMEONE, A. ... et al, 2016. A decision support system for waste heat recovery in manufacturing. CIRP Annals Manufacturing Technology, 65 (1), pp. 21-24.

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Elsevier / © The Authors

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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2016-03-01

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2016

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This is an open access article published by Elsevier and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY 4.0), http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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0007-8506

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  • en

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