Bhaskaran Gopalakrishnan

December 16th, 2009

Energy Efficiency in Industrial Process Heating Systems

By Bhaskaran Gopalakrishnan, Professor and Director of the Industrial Assessment Center, Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, West Virginia University and Deepak P. Gupta, Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology, Southeast Missouri State University.

Introduction and Problem Statement

Process heating systems are some of the largest energy-intensive systems in most industrial facilities and account for approximately 36% of industrial energy consumption.  These systems may include equipment such as furnaces, ovens, heaters, kilns, and lehrs.  They are used in a variety of processes in an industrial energy system to transfer heat from energy sources to the products.

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