Industrial Heat Pumps for Low Temperature Heat Recovery-WSU
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December 2008,Updated May 2009
Industrial heat pumps cansignicantly reduce ossil uel
consumption and greenhousegas emissions in drying, washing,evaporation and distillationprocesses in a variety o applica-tions. They can also be used toproduce steam and to provideprocess water heating and cooling.Industries that can benet romthis technology include oodand beverage processing, orestproducts, textiles, and chemicals.
Industrial heat pumps are usedin heat recovery to transer heatrom a relatively low-temperaturesource and upgrade it toa higher temperature, andto recover latent heat1 romhigh-humidity streams. Heatexchangers in contrast are used totranser heat rom a warm streamto a cooler one.
In a retrot o ossil-uel redequipment, an industrial heatpump will increase electricityconsumption due to the heatpumps compressors and ans,while ossil uel use will bereduced or eliminated. Overall
Industrial Heat Pumps forLow-Temperature Heat Recovery
Application:
Tree Top apple drying facility,Wenatchee, Washington
Application:
Tree Top apple drying facility,Wenatchee, Washington
THE TREE TOP FOOD PROCESSING FACILITY IN WENATCHEE,Washington, plans to retroft an industrial heat pump to a direct-frednatural gas conveyor dryer or apples. Warm water reclaimed rom theheat pump will be used or reezer derost. The existing natural gasburners will remain as auxiliary and back-up heat. Project managersestimate this measure will save 89,400 million British thermal unitso natural gas per year, while increasing annual electricity use by
8,580,000 kilowatt hours.
With net energy savings o $463,000 per year and an installedcost o $1.25 million, this measure has an estimated payback oapproximately 2.7 years. The project also will reduce net carbondioxide emissions by more than 2.4 million pounds per year*, whichrepresents a 10% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions associatedwith their drying operations. Companies that register and veriygreenhouse gas emissions have the opportunity to market reduc-tions as carbon osets on exchanges such as the Chicago ClimateExchange, or through nonproft organizations such as the ClimateTrust.
The natural gas savings potential with this type o project issignifcant, along with the opportunity or carbon dioxide emissionsreduction, says Paul Scheihing o the U.S. Department o Energy'sIndustrial Technologies Program. There are dozens o ood processorsthroughout the Northwest that can beneft rom the technology.
* This fgure takes into account emissions rom electricity generation. The marginal carbonproduction rate o the Nortwest Power System orecasted over the period 2010 through 2025 is0.9 lbs o CO
2per kWh. (http://www.nwcouncil.org/Library/2008/2008-08.pdf)
1 Latent heat is energy associated with aphase change. In latent heat recovery, theenergy released when water vapor condensesback to a liquid is recovered.
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energy eciency is improvedbecause o latent and sensible heat2recovery. For best eciency, heatexchangers and heat pumps canbe applied together, as shown inFigure 1. Industrial heat pumpsare most cost eective in regionswith low electrical costs comparedto ossil uel costs.
Re-emergence of an
existing technologyMany industrial heat pumps wereinstalled in the 1980s. However,the ederally mandated phase outo ozone-damaging chlorofuoro-carbons in the 1990s necessitatedthe development o new reriger-ants capable o operating at thehigher temperatures needed ortypical applications. Today, newenvironmentally sound reriger-ants have allowed industrial heat
pumps to reemerge in a range oapplications.
TemperatureconsiderationsVapor compression heat pumpscan achieve maximum tempera-tures o 220 degrees Fahrenheitwith temperatures rises o asmuch as 100 F. To achieve greatertemperature rises, two-stage
systems can be used. Each stageuses its own rerigerant designedor a specic temperature range.
Open-cycle versusclosed-cycle systemsMost new heat pump systemsoperate in a closed cycle, returningexhaust to the dryer ater it isdehumidied. Closed-loopsystems have greater eciency(coefcient o perormances3 o 4to 6) compared to open-loopsystems, and do not have emis-sions. In open-cycle systems, as
illustrated in Figure 1, none othe exhaust air is returned to thedryer ater being cooled and dehu-midied by the heat pump. Anopen-cycle may be necessary to,or example, exhaust impuritiesor to exhaust combustion gasesi direct-red auxiliary heating isused. Also, it is oten dicult toconvert an existing closed-loopsystem to open-loop as a retrot.
Avoiding corrosionand foulingWhen drying acidic products,such as apples and oak, or icaustic cleaning products areused, the exhaust heat exchangermay require stainless steel tubeswith aluminum ns coated witha protective material such as Elec-troFins e-coat. Sticky exhaustscan be handled by incorporating
a wash cycle to periodically cleanheat exchanger suraces. Duringthe wash-down cycle, whichmight last a ew minutes once aday or so, auxiliary heat can beused to maintain temperature.
The natural gassavings potential with
this type o project issignifcant, along withthe opportunity or
carbon dioxideemissions reduction.There are dozens o
ood processorsthroughout the
Northwest that canbeneft rom the
technology.
Paul Scheihing,
U.S. Department o Energys
Industrial Technologies
Program
Other considerations Warm water that is con-densed out of the exhaustcan be recovered for otheruses. If condensed wateris not reused, its additionto the waste water streammust be accounted for.
When installing a largeunit on a roof, structuralissues must be considered.
The increased electrical
demand of the compres-sor may increase electricdemand charges and mayrequire upgrade of theelectrical service.
2 Sensible heat is energy added or subtractedthat causes a change in temperature. In sen-sible heat recovery, energy is transerred roma hot source to a cooler one.
3 Coefcient o perormance is a ratio calcu-lated by dividing the total heating capacityprovided by the heat pump by the totalelectrical input.
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Figure 1.
Open-Loop Heat Pump Dehumidifcation System
Source: WSU Extension Energy Program
AuxiliaryHeat
WarmSupply Airto Dryer
WarmOutside
Air
Condenser Coil:Heating
CoolOutside
Air
HeatExchanger
Exhaust toOutside
Evaporator Coil:Dehumidification& Cooling(Heat Recovery Coil)
Warm MoistExhaust
from Dryer
ExpansionValve
EXHAUST
FAN
SUPPLY
FAN
RECEIVER
T TEMPERATURE SENSOR
H RELATIVE HUMIDITY SENSOR
COMPRESSOR
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More Information
Heat Pumps in Industrywww.heatpumpcentre.org/About_heat_pumps/HP_industry.asp
Industrial Heat Pumps for Steam and Fuel Savingswww.eere.energy.gov/industry/bestpractices/pds/heatpump.pd
Industrial Heat Pumps: A Means to Mitigate GlobalIndustrial Emissionshttp://www.heatpumpcentre.org/publ/HPCOrder/deault.aspx#38
Waste Heat Recovery in the Process Industries(Carbon Trust Report # GPG141)www.carbontrust.co.uk
Learning from Experience with Industrial Heat Pumpswww.caddet.org/public/uploads/pds/Report/ar_23.pd
The Chicago Climate Exchangewww.chicagoclimatex.com
The Climate Trustwww.climatetrust.org
Northwest Food Processors Associationwww.nwpa.org/eweb/Startpage.aspx?site=NWFPA
ContactChristine LoveIndustrial Services Project ManagerWashington State University Extension Energy ProgramBox 43165Olympia, Washington 98504-3165
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