Detecting Points Needing Temperature Control in a Heat Exchanger Network using a Commercial Simulator

Abstract – It’s presented here a new tool in learning some basic aspects of Chemical Engineering: an industrial process simulation. Taking some data from literature, we considered a heat exchange network in a simulator. With some variations in a stream property, it’s possible to detect a propagation of a disturbance. So, the students can detect points in the net needing some kind of control, besides learnig which variation cause a specific disturbance