Economic feasibility of heat pumps in distillation to reduce energy use

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 1216-1223

  Díez, Eduardo ^a,b   Langston, Paul ^a   Ovejero, Gabriel ^b   Romero, M Dolores ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Facultad de CC Químicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distillation; Energy savings; Heat pump; Process simulation

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BUTANE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTILLATION; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; PUMPS;

ABSORPTION HEAT PUMPS; CAPITAL COSTS; ECONOMIC FEASIBILITIES; ENERGY SAVINGS; HEAT PUMP; PROCESS SIMULATION; RECOMPRESSION; SOFTWARE PLATFORMS;

HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS;

EID: 58549116491     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2008.06.013     Document Type: Article

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