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The current regulatory framework in Europe regarding industrial energy consumption puts emphasis on regular energy assessments and increasing energy efficiency. Among the available strategies to identify energy savings opportunities, Total Site Analysis (T ...

Steam is a key energy vector for industrial sites, most commonly used for process heating and cooling, cogeneration of heat and mechanical power as a motive fluid or for stripping. Steam networks are used to carry steam from producers to consumers and betw ...

Industrial sites and their associated energy systems are estimated to be responsible for 31% of worldwide energy consumption. Improving their energy efficiencies has the potential to reduce production costs of industrial sites and contribute towards the 20 ...

TSA (total site analysis) has shown to be an efficient tool for identifying heat integration measures in industrial clusters, leading to the optimal design of utility systems and energy bill reduction. In order to justify investments, any proposed utility ...

Key performance indicators in engineering problems include but are not limited to financial, operational, management and environmental factors, which are significantly affected by aspects such as seasonality, fouling, economic climate, production rates, su ...

A refinery and petrochemical site are described in the document. Data for the steam consumption and production of the cluster's process units are also described. The cluster can be broken down into two individual sites made up of process units and process ...

Steam is a key energy vector for industrial sites, used for process heating, direct injection and stripping, tracing and cogeneration of mechanical power. Steam networks transport steam from producers to consumers and across different pressure levels. The ...

Steam networks and their utilities should be dimensioned to satisfy day-to-day demand as well peaks. Peaks can be caused by unit start-ups, extreme weather conditions or combinations of high demand from process units. During maintenance operations or unexp ...

Laurent Gabriel Félix Alexandre Stéphane Bungener

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Methodology for streams definition and graphical representation in Total Site Analysis

Optimal Operations and Resilient Investments in Steam Networks

Energy Efficiency and Integration in the Refining and Petrochemical Industries

Multi-period analysis of heat integration measures in industrial clusters

A methodology for creating sequential multi-period base-case scenarios for large data sets

Typical Industrial Cluster - Chemistry/refinery/petrochemistry

Resilient decision making in steam network investments

Multi-Objectives, Multi-Period Optimization of district heating networks Using Evolutionary Algorithms and Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP)

Optimisation of unit investment and load shedding in a steam network facing undercapacity