Process Equipment Update
David Oakland describes how steam accumulation can be
harnessed to aid steam plant design and secure higher energy efficiency
Accumulating interest
E
nergy managers are constantly coerced, whether because of legislative environmental directives or simply self-imposed responsibility, to fi nd and implement alternative energy-effi cient solutions to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The spin-off benefi ts are lower energy bills and increased bottom line profi tability. Compliance
with regulation and achieving energy cost reductions have become necessary bed-fellows.
A major concern for the steam plant designer is, in many cases, the fl uctuating nature of the process steam demand to be met. The demand for steam from many industrial processes is erratic and step changes in load can have a
Steam accumulation can boost plant effi ciencies
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