Design Toolbox for Energy Efficiency in the Process Industry

以高性价比的方式降低工业厂房的能耗和排放，对于过程工业的可持续发展，以及应对气候变化和保障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，但在当前的金融和能源环境下，非常需要另一波逐步变化的改进。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，以与商业目标、碳足迹和环境标准以及可操作性问题协同的方式确定可持续的、具有成本效益的能源效率机会。在这个建议中，描述了一个设计工具箱的开发，用于在过程工业中提供最佳和可持续的能源效率解决方案。工具箱包括通用的方法和工具，用于(i)确定能效的最佳改造/设计机会，（ii）分析集中式和分布式能源系统的过程/能源集成机会，（iii）交付保证可操作性的设计方案，以及（iv）权衡详细分析关于成本/利润，能源消耗和环境影响的各种方案。

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.