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    Process Intensification: Engineering for Efficiency, Sustainability and Flexibility
    Process Intensification: Engineering for Efficiency, Sustainability and Flexibility
    Process Intensification: Engineering for Efficiency, Sustainability and Flexibility
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    Process Intensification: Engineering for Efficiency, Sustainability and Flexibility

    By David Reay, Colin Ramshaw and Adam Harvey

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    Process intensification (PI) is a chemical and process design approach that leads to substantially smaller, cleaner, safer and more energy-efficient process technology. A hot topic across the chemical and process industries, this is the first book to provide a practical working guide to understanding and developing successful PI solutions that deliver savings and efficiencies. It will appeal to engineers working with leading-edge process technologies and those involved research and development of chemical, process, environmental, pharmaceutical, and bioscience systems.

    * Shows chemical and process engineers how to apply process intensification to their system, process or operation
    * A hard-working reference and user guide to the technology AND application of PI, covering fundamentals, industry applications, supplemented by a development and implementation guide
    * Leading author team, including Professor Colin Ramshaw, developer of the HiGee high-gravity distillation process at ICI, widely credited as the instigator of PI principles
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateApr 8, 2011
    ISBN9780080558080
    Process Intensification: Engineering for Efficiency, Sustainability and Flexibility
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    David Reay

    Professor Reay manages David Reay & Associates, UK, and he is a Visiting Professor at Northumbria University, Emeritus Professor at Newcastle University, and Honorary Professor Brunel University London, UK. His main research interests are compact heat exchangers, process intensification, and heat pumps. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Thermal Science and Engineering Progress and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Thermofluids, both are published by Elsevier. Prof. Reay is the Author/Co-author of eight other books.

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      Process Intensification - David Reay

      1

      A brief history of process intensification

      Objectives In this Chapter

      The objectives in this chapter are to summarise the historical development of process intensification, chronologically and in terms of the sectors and unit operations to which it has been applied.

      1.1 Introduction

      Those undertaking a literature search using the phrase ‘process intensification’ will find a substantial database covering the process industries, enhanced heat transfer and, not surprisingly, agriculture. For those outside specialist engineering fields, ‘intensification’ is commonly associated with the increases in productivity in farming of poultry, animals and crops where, of course, massive increases in yield for a given area of land can be achieved. The types of intensification being discussed in this book are implemented in a different manner, but have the same outcome.

      The historical aspects of heat and mass transfer enhancement, or intensification, are of interest for many reasons. We can examine some processes that were intensified some decades before the phrase ‘process intensification’ became common in the process engineering (particularly chemical) literature. Some used electric fields, others employed centrifugal forces. The use of rotation to intensify heat and mass transfer has, as we will see, become one of the most spectacular tools in the armoury of the plant engineer in several unit operations, ranging from reactors to separators. However, it was in the area of heat transfer – in particular two-phase operation – that rotation was first exploited in industrial plants. The rotating boiler is an interesting starting point, and rotation forms the essence of PI within this chapter.

      It is, however, worth highlighting one or two early references to intensification that have interesting connections with current developments. One of the earliest references to intensification of processes was in a paper published in the US in 1925 (Wightman et al.). The research carried out by Eastman Kodak in the US was directed at image intensification – increasing the ‘developability’ of latent images on plates by a substantial amount. This was implemented using a small addition of hydrogen peroxide to the developing solution.

      T.L. Winnington (1999), in a review of rotating process systems, reported work at Eastman Kodak by Hickman on the use of spinning discs to generate thin films as the basis of high-grade plastic films (UK Patent, 1936). The later Hickman still, alluded to in the discussion on separators later in this chapter, was another invention of his. The interesting aspect that brings the application of PI in the image reproduction area right into the twenty-first century is the current (2007) activity at Fujifilm Imaging Colorants Ltd in Grangemouth, Scotland, where a three-reactor intensified process has replaced a very large ‘stirred pot’ in the production of an inkjet colorant used in inkjet printer cartridges. The outcome was production of 1 kg/h from a lab-scale unit costing £15 000, while a commercial plant not involving PI for up to 2 tonnes/annum would need a 60 m³ vessel costing £millions (Web 1, 2007).

      1.2 Rotating Boilers

      One of the earliest uses of ‘HiGee’ forces in modern day engineering plant was in boilers. There are obvious advantages in spacecraft in using rotating plant, as they create an artificial gravity field where none existed before, see for example Reay and Kew (2006). However, one of the first references to rotating boilers arises in German documentation cited as a result of post-Second World War interrogations of German gas turbine engineers, where the design is used in conjunction with gas and steam turbines (Anon, 1932; Anon, 1946).

      1.2.1 The Rotating Boiler/Turbine Concept

      The advantages claimed by the German researchers on behalf of the rotating boiler are that it offers the possibility of constructing an economic power plant of compact dimensions and low weight. No feed pump or feed water regulator are required, the centrifugal action of the water automatically takes care of the feed water supply. Potential applications cited for the boiler were small electric generators, peak load generating plant (linked to a small steam turbine), and as a starting motor for gas turbines, etc. A rotating boiler/gas turbine assembly using H2 and O2 combustion was also studied for use in torpedoes. The system in this latter role is illustrated in Figure 1.1. The boiler tubes are located at the outer periphery of the unit, and a contra-rotating integral steam turbine drives both the boiler and the power shaft. (It is suggested that start-up needed an electric motor.)

      Figure 1.1 The German 20 h.p. starting motor concept with a rotating tubular boiler (tubes are shown in cross-section).

      The greatest problem affecting the design was the necessity to maintain dynamic balance of the rotor assembly while the tubes were subject to combined stress and temperature deformations. Even achieving a static ‘cold’ balance with such a tubular arrangement was difficult, if not impossible, at the time.

      During the Second World War, new rotating boiler projects did not use tubes, but instead went for heating surfaces in two areas – a rotating cylindrical surface which formed the inner part of the furnace, and the rotating blades themselves – rather like the NASA concept described below. In fact the stator blades were also used as heat sources, superheating the steam after it had been generated in the rotating boiler. One of the later variants of the gas turbine design is shown in Figure

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