Publication detail

Cascade Table Analysis for Targeting and Design of Material Resource Recycling and Reuse Networks featuring Multiple Contaminants

Chin, H.H., Lew P.Y., Klemeš, J.J., Varbanov, P.S.

Original Title

Cascade Table Analysis for Targeting and Design of Material Resource Recycling and Reuse Networks featuring Multiple Contaminants

Type

lecture

Language

English

Original Abstract

The Water Cascade Table used for targeting and designing for single contaminant material recycling network is extended to multiple constraints (multi-contaminants) in this work. Based on previous analysis, multiple cascades with individual contaminant/quality have to be analysed sequentially. Each contaminant is assigned with a cascade table. Each sink is classified into the proper contaminant cascade based on their limiting contaminant, and the sources are prioritised based on the contaminant. This work also proposes a new way of arranging the streams in the Cascade Table to adapt for the multiple contaminants, which is by determining whether they belong to the high quality (Below the Pinch) region and the probable Pinch-causing source. The overall framework is to first identify a preliminary resource target for each sink, then to follow certain heuristics for further reduction of the fresh resource. The proposed algorithm could yield an accurate minimum resource target and the associated network design. This work also explores the water-using processes with fixed load and fixed flowrate operations. Several case studies are solved to illustrate the applicability of the proposed method, encompassing problems with a fresh resource, impure resource and multiple resources.

Keywords

Cascade; Table; Analysis; Targeting; Design; Material; Resource; Recycling; Reuse; Networks; Multiple Contaminants

Authors

Chin, H.H., Lew P.Y., Klemeš, J.J., Varbanov, P.S.

Released

15. 12. 2020

Location

International Conference on Technologies and Business Models for Circular Economy (online)

URL

https://tbmce.um.si/tbmce-2020-program/

BibTex

@misc{BUT170008,
  author="Hon Huin {Chin} and Jiří {Klemeš} and Petar Sabev {Varbanov}",
  title="Cascade Table Analysis for Targeting and Design of Material Resource Recycling and Reuse Networks featuring Multiple Contaminants",
  year="2020",
  address="International Conference on Technologies and Business Models for Circular Economy  (online)",
  url="https://tbmce.um.si/tbmce-2020-program/",
  note="lecture"
}