Utility Heating for Steam Production

The effect of industrial activity on the environment has attracted considerable attention over the past few decades. Industry, therefore, has started looking at methods of reducing the volumes of produced wastewater. This paper presents the industrial separation of lower and higher temperature condensates’ collection using the heating utility of steam production, by separation techniques. The existing condensate collection regarding the utilities preparation for a steam generation may no longer be optimal; the basic intention is that minimal changes in the system can produce efficient improvement by using separate collections of low and high-temperature condensates, and the use of available heat with little heat flow rate loss. This separated water condensate collection preparation for the utility of steam production by using a separation technique was tested on an existing methanol process, which allowed for an efficient and additional 7 % water condensate collection system for steam generation.