Energy consumption and heat recovery of an industrial fluidized catalytic cracking process based on cost savings

Abstract

Energy consumption is a significant issue in operation design for low-cost sustainable production and is accomplished by heat integration giving overall environmental advantages via reducing carbon emissions. Heat recovery is a beneficial tool that determines the minimum cooling and heating demand through recovery and re-use of energy within the process. Thus in this study, process of heat recovery and energy consumption of the fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) is investigated to recover most of the external energy and reducing the environmental effect in addition to maximizing the productivity with minimum overall cost of the process. Where the performance of the FCC units plays a major role on the overall economics of refinery plants and improvement in operation or control of FCC units, it will result in dramatic economic benefits. The heat integration process is done based on experimental information from pilot scale, mathematical modeling developed and commercial process reported in our earlier study.