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PinCH
Developers
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts - Engineering and Architecture
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts - Engineering and Architecture
Contact
Don Olsen, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
License
Proprietary
SWEET Project
DeCarbCH - WP 4 and 10
PinCH is a tool for professionals that allows them to perform classic pinch analyses. The intuitive user interface with descriptive graphics leads you step-by-step through the pinch analysis, for continuous and non-continuous processes. PinCH is a dynamic engineering software tool with a complex business model in the background. The software PinCH allows engineers to use an iterative procedure to quickly and clearly optimize a process.
Features
- Continuous processes and Batch Processes
- Design of Heat Exchanger Networks
- Integration of heat pumps, combined heat and power engines, thermal storage units, etc.
- Area Optimization
- Heat Storage Design
- Flexible Cost Functions
- Optimizing Energy Supply Systems
- Supertargeting for multiple operating case, batch, and continuous processes
Facts
| Class | Pinch analysis |
| Type | Deterministic |
| Spatial regions | |
| Spatial resolution | |
| Time coverage | |
| Time resolution | |
Sectors |
Category | Inputs | Outputs |
|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomy | Economy wide consumption Climate policy measures Managerial (strategical, business models) Legal | |
| Infrastructure | Electricity - transmission network Electricity - distribution network Thermal network Gas network Hydrogen network Captured CO2 network | |
| Environment | CO2 emissions from electricity production | CO2 emissions from energy system CO2 emissions in industry Captured CO2 emissions |
| Energy demand | Total electricity Electricity - appliances | Space heating Space Cooling Industrial heating Industrial cooling Hot water |
| Energy supply/production | Heat storage Cold storage Electricity - production Electricity - storage Electricity - installed capacity | Space heating Space cooling Industrial heating Industrial cooling Hot water |
| Resource potential | Solar Water Wind Biomass Hydropower potential Geothermal Carbon storage potential Artificial thermal sources (e.g. waste heat) | Carbon storage potential |
| Direct demand of resources | Gas as feedstock in industry (i.e. non-heating demand) Other fossil fuels | |
| Trade | Electricity imports/exports Electricity import/export price Fossil fuels (i.e. gas, gasoline, diesel) imports/exports Fossil fuels import/export price Biomass and biofuels imports/exports Biomass and biofuels import/export price Hydrogen imports/exports Hydrogen import/export price | |
| Technologies Inv: Investment costs Eff: Efficiency OM: Operation and Maintenance costs LCA: Life cycle assessment indicators | Batteries (Inv,Eff,OM,LCA) Electricity generation (Inv,Eff,OM,LCA) Electricity storage (Inv,Eff,OM,LCA) Heat storage (Inv,Eff,OM,LCA) Hydrogen production (Inv,Eff,OM,LCA) Pyrolysis (Inv,Eff,OM,LCA) Wood gassification (Inv,Eff,OM,LCA) CHPs (Inv,Eff,OM) Heat production (Inv,OM) | CHPs (Inv,Eff,OM) Heat production (Inv,OM) |
| Prices | ||
| Others |
References
- PinCH. https://pinch-analyse.ch/en/
- Y. Abdelouadoud et al (2019). Batch process heat storage integration: A simple and effective graphical approach, Energy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2019.06.180
- B.Ong et al (2021). A user workflow for combining process simulation and pinch analysis considering ecological factors. Chemical Product and Process Modeling. https://doi.org/10.1515/cppm-2021-0004
- D. Olsen et al. (2017). Integration of Heat Pumps in Industrial Processes with Pinch Analysis. http://hpc2017.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/O.3.7.2-Integration-of-Heat-Pumps-in-Industrial-Processes-with-Pinch-Analysis.pdf
- J.Zuberi (2020). Heat integration of a multi-product batch process by means of direct and indirect heat recovery using thermal energy storage. Applied Thermal Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2019.114796
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