can not consider utility for reboiler and condenser as part of the heat integration
- heat duty of the utility has already been used up for heating/cooling in the reboiler/condenser
reactor cooling
- the reactor is exothermic resulting in temperature of 934.9 C, but this needs to be cooled down to 350 C for safety/material specification so need cold utility.
- Due to the nature of the reactor, if we directly include this ‘stream’ to be cooled down into the heat integration, it will be very complicated later in the equipment design stage.
- Usually reactor has its own cooling system, like a molten salt loop. However, if the molten salt loop is to be included in the heat integration, then that is possible. But, this can only be known after the design stage is completed. So maybe no need to put in heat integration? (Refer example 19.1, pg 435 Robin Smith)