Effect of Apply Pinch Analysis Theory to Distributed Energy Systems Integration

Nowdays more and more methods for design and transformation Distributed Energy System are applied. Traditional optimization is based on the original system , by successively optimize the process in order to recovery heat as much as possible or to reduce the enery consumption . Pinch analysis can get the energy goal and expect heat exchangers number directly,according to the analysis of the users demand streams parameters cascade. In this paper, pinch analysis is applyed for the downstream heat exchanger network optimal design of the distributed energy system , and has proved that pinch analysis advantages for the distributed energy system integration.