Enhancing energy efficiency of oil and petrochemical industries

• Main Author: Baskaran, Ramalingam
• Other Authors: Gooi Hoay Beng
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Industrial electronics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/49818
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Oil and petrochemical industry is composed of many different unit processes and unit operations. As this type of industries spends typically 50% of cash operating costs (i.e.,, excluding capital costs and depreciation) on energy, making energy a major cost factor and also an important opportunity for cost reduction. Energy use is also a major source of emissions in the refinery industry making energy efficiency improvement an attractive opportunity to reduce emissions and operating costs.