Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)
Confidenciality: Si
Education area(s): Enginyeria Química
APS: No
Title in different languages: Simulació i optimització del sistema de distribució d'aigua de refrigeració en una planta de LHC
Abstract: The cooling water system at Dow Chemical Ibérica's ethylene production plant represents a production bottleneck in summer due to increased cooling requirements and, in addition, several heat exchangers users of the system present reliability problems (fouling & pitting corrosion). The present project aims to optimize the cooling water distribution system of the cracker plant through its hydraulic simulation, the validation of the simulated model and its further analysis to identify the critical exchangers in terms of velocity and heat duty and, finally, by implementing several improvement proposals to enhance the reliability and performance of the critical heat exchangers and to increase their cooling capacity.
Subject: Enginyeria química
Academic year: 2023-2024
Language: en
Work's public defense date: 2024-04-16
Subject areas: Industrial Engineering
Student: El Ouahi, Ayoub
Department: Enginyeria Química
Creation date in repository: 2025-10-09
TFM credits: 15
Keywords: Cooling water distribution system, Hydraulic systems, Process optimization
Title in original language: Simulation and Optimization of the Cooling Water distribution system in LHC plant
Access Rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Project director: Bourouis Chebata, Mahmoud
Repositori URV