Process Integration Contribution to Safety and Related Financial Management Issues

• Main Authors: P.S. Varbanov, J.J. Klemes, X. Liu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: AIDIC Servizi S.r.l. 2016-09-01
• Series: Chemical Engineering Transactions
• Online Access: https://www.cetjournal.it/index.php/cet/article/view/3626

Total Site Heat Integration (TSHI) has been established as an extension of Pinch Technology and well implemented in industry. It was initially developed as a procedure for targeting energy performance of sites using the central utility system for inter-process heat recovery. Beside the thermodynamics, other critical issues, such as safety, and related financial management also have to be considered as that can influence the implementation of TSHI on industrial sites. The presented work analyses aspects related to safety on Total Sites including Data Extraction, constraints introduced by safety requirements and investment prioritisation for safety improvement. A case study based on the Bhopal incident data is used to illustrate the proposed method.