Thermal energy and industrial processes

The following is a collection of case histories related to thermal energy problems within all kind of industrial production processes. These are useful in order to find the right installation solution for cooling, heating and thermoregulation tasks in production processes, and overal in the field of energy efficiency.

By Valter Biolchi

• Definitions
• • Preliminary definitions
  • • Thermal duty evaluation
    • Heat dissipation, cooling, heating, heat recovery and thermoregulation
    • Hot and Cold
  • Thermal machines
  • • Thermoregulating units
    • Chiller or refrigerator
    • Evaporative cooler
    • Evaporative towers
    • Free cooler, dry cooler
    • Heat exchangers
• Thermal machines selection
• • Chillers
  • • Maintenance tips, installation and performances of chillers
    • Air and water condensed chillers
    • Chiller selection
  • Evaporative Towers
  • • Towers and exchangers: the evaporative condenser
    • Evaporative towers maintenance and revamping
    • Noise in evaporative towers
    • Filling pack selection
    • Material's selection
    • Overall energy consumption in cooling towers
    • Chemical analysis of tower water
    • Water consumption in evaporative towers
    • Water treatment and maintenance
    • Project Wet bulb temperature evaluation
    • Towers vs Radiators, evaporation and air cooling comparison
    • Selection of Evaporative Towers
  • Free Cooling
  • • Free cooling applications in rubber and textile industry
    • Free cooling applications overview
    • The importance of Antifreeze
    • Free cooling automation
    • Adiabatic boosting of a free cooler
    • Thermal cooling energy costs comparison
    • Integrated free cooling
    • Fluid's characteristics
    • Free cooling or dry cooling selection
  • Heat exchangers
  • • Comparison between Plate heat exchangers and Shell and tube
    • Fouling Factor: the soiling liquids
    • Gaskets compatibility and service-life in plate heat exchangers
    • Gas, pressurized air and vapor
    • High and average viscosity fluids
    • Material's selection - low viscosity fluids
    • Parameters defining the selection using non gaseous fluids
    • Construction details
    • Types of heat exchangers
    • Heat exchangers selection
  • Thermoregulating Units
  • • Insulation and auto-ignition temperature
    • Thermoregulating units with diathermic oil heating
    • Thermoregulating units selection
• Case History
• • Automotive test bench for engines, components and batteries
  • Heat exchangers in concentrated solar power
  • Cooling tasks in compressed air
  • Thermoregulation in paint production
  • Brazed plate exchangers in ORC cogeneration
  • Cogeneration and thermal machines
  • Plate heat exchangers on ships
  • Hydraulic oil cooling and lubrication in machine tools
  • Thermoregulation in food, pharma and chemical sectors
  • Thermal machines redundancy to avoid production downtimes
  • Thermoregulation in a laboratory pharma plant