Design Toolbox for Energy Efficiency in the Process Industry

以经济有效的方式降低工业装置的能耗和排放对于过程工业的可持续发展以及应对气候变化和确保国家能源安全具有重要意义。虽然在过去的15年里，过程工业在实现这一目标方面取得了重大进展，但特别是在当前的金融和能源环境下，仍然非常需要另一波渐进式改进。这就要求对目前的能源和工艺选择进行全面、定量和系统的分析，以确定可持续的、具有成本效益的提高能源效率的机会，同时考虑到商业目标、碳足迹和环境标准以及可操作性问题。在该提案中，描述了为过程工业中最佳和可持续地提供能源效率解决方案而开发的设计工具箱。该工具箱包括通用方法和工具，用于：（i）确定提高能效的最佳改造/设计机会，（ii）分析工艺与集中式和分布式能源系统的工艺/能源整合机会，（iii）提供设计选项的有保证的可操作性，以及（iv）对各种选项的成本/利润进行权衡详细分析，能源消耗环境影响。

Reducing energy consumption and emissions in industrial plants in a cost-effective way is of great significance for the sustainability of the process industry as well as for tackling climate change and ensuring national energy security. While major advances towards this goal have been made over the last fifteen years in the process industry, there is a great need, especially in the current financial and energy climate, for another wave of step-change improvements. This calls for a holistic, quantitative and systematic analysis of the current energy and process options to identify sustainable, cost-effective opportunities for energy efficiency in a synergistic manner with business objectives, carbon foot-printing and environmental criteria and operability concerns. In this proposal, the development of a design toolbox for the optimal and sustainable delivery of energy efficiency solutions in the process industry is described. The toolbox comprises generic methodologies and tools for (i) the identification of optimal retrofit/design opportunities for energy efficiency, (ii) the analysis of the process/energy integration opportunities of the process with centralized and distributed energy systems, (iii) the delivery of guaranteed operability for the design options, and (iv) trade-off detailed analysis of the various options regarding cost/profit, energy consumption environmental impact.