PMAOPS511 — Determine energy transfer loads

1 Prepare for energy balance

• 1.1Identify purpose of energy balance
• 1.2Determine possible boundary for analysis
• 1.3Identify plant and energy sources and sinks within boundary

2 Calculate heat transferred from/to items

• 2.1Calculate conductive heat transfer to/from an object
• 2.2Calculate convective heat transfer to/from an object
• 2.3Calculate radiative heat transfer to/from an object
• 2.4Calculate combined heat transfer to/from an object, including resistances in series and parallel

3 Calculate temperature change

• 3.1Calculate temperature change caused by heating/cooling of process materials in typical examples of processing equipment
• 3.2Calculate change in heat content caused by chemical reaction
• 3.3Calculate temperature rise caused by chemical reaction

4 Select appropriate heating and/or cooling mechanism for an application

• 4.1Compare rates of heat transfer/overall heat transfer coefficients for major methods/media of heating and cooling
• 4.2Determine appropriate methods of varying/controlling rates of heat transfer
• 4.3Calculate heat transfer rates under a range of conditions
• 4.4Recommend most appropriate heat transfer mechanism/medium for this application

5 Conduct energy balance over process components

• 5.1Determine desired boundaries for energy balance calculation
• 5.2Determine possible sources of data required from the plant
• 5.3Match and adjust sources of data to desired boundary for energy balance
• 5.4Determine overall heating load
• 5.5Determine overall cooling load
• 5.6Interpret results to meet purpose of the energy balance

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