Heat Integration in Petro-SIM 6

Heat Exchanger Modeling Capabilities

Petro-SIM provides standard detailed design and rating models with the option to use HTRI methods which are seamlessly integrated to provide rigorous industry-standard heat exchanger performance calculations.

Petro-SIM’s proprietary shell and tube exchanger geometry design algorithm facilitates the rapid screening of heat exchanger designs to achieve energy savings. For the revamp of existing networks, screening for retrofit opportunities is completed with enhanced heat transfer coefficients via enhancements being considered along with new tube bundle configurations and additional shells in series and parallel. From the thousands of potential designs, Petro-SIM recommends a new design using your criteria.

These potential design options are assessed based on the supplied pressure drop and velocity criteria and then ranked based on relative cost criteria. Several design options, which minimise cost while optimising pressure drop and velocity, are automatically recommended. These recommended designs can be assessed and compared against user-selected designs. You then select the final design and apply it to the model to be run in steady state rating mode.