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Chemical engineering

a method for designing heat exchanger networks that finds the minimum energy targets from composite temperature curves.

In chemical engineering, pinch analysis refers to a method for designing heat exchanger networks that finds the minimum energy targets from composite temperature curves. This meaning comes from Linnhoff (1978) in AIChE Journal.[1]

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References

Linnhoff, B., & Flower, J. R. (1978). Synthesis of heat exchanger networks: I. Systematic generation of energy optimal networks. AIChE Journal, 24(4), 633-642. https://doi.org/10.1002/aic.690240411

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