Orientador: Roger Josef Zemp / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Química / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T10:03:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Salviano_FlaviaRichterFernandez_M.pdf: 1544610 bytes, checksum: faf01181a27b65fd972f0e2414e7112b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Originalmente a Análise Pinch foi aplicada em projetos de novas redes de trocadores de calor em plantas industriais. No entanto, com a ampliação de plantas ou modificação das condições de processos, surgiu a necessidade de se adaptar o conceito de integração de processos para modificar redes existentes. Diante da limitação de ferramentas para auxílio em círculos e a dificuldade de se desenvolver projetos de retrofit, foi desenvolvida uma planilha eletrônica de cálculo baseada nos programas Microsoft Excel e Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Os dados da rede existente e/ou proposta são inseridos pelo usuário e a planilha utiliza os conceitos de balanço energético e Network Pinch para calcular temperaturas de saída dos fluidos nos trocadores e temperaturas finais das correntes de processo. A ferramenta também permite ao usuário a identificação dos limites de recuperação de calor da rede existente e a minimização do consumo de utilidades sem mudanças topológicas / Abstract: Pinch analysis techniques were originally developed for projects of new heat exchangers networks in industrial plants. However the increasing capacity of plants or modifications in process parameters generated the necessity of adaptation of the original concept of process integration to retrofit of existing networks. Due to the limitation of tools to support calculations and the difficulty in developing retrofit projects, an electronic worksheet based on softwares Microsoft Excel and Visual Basic for Application (VBA) was created. The information of the existing and/or proposed network is inserted in the worksheet by the user and the program uses the concepts of energy balance and Network Pinch to calculate the outlet temperature of fluids in each heat exchanger and the outlet temperature of each process stream in the network. This tool also allows the identification of limits of heat recovery and the minimization of utilities consumption with no topological changes / Mestrado / Sistemas de Processos Quimicos e Informatica / Mestre em Engenharia Química

Legally binding targets set by the UK government to reduce carbon emissions by 2050 mean it is imperative that the efficiency of the UK housing stock is improved. Housing currently contributes over 30% of the UK s total carbon emissions and a large proportion of the current stock will still exist in 2050. There is therefore a need to retrofit this existing stock with energy saving measures, as the savings from new builds will not be adequate to meet the stringent carbon reduction targets. Whilst technologies to facilitate energy saving retrofit are available, there has been a low uptake from householders in the UK, in part due to the lack of consideration of user requirements within the design of these technologies. To investigate this issue further, this thesis considers two main questions: How can the design of energy saving measures and the process of retrofit of the existing UK housing stock be improved through the use of user centred design (UCD) and How can UCD methods be applied to the research and development process for energy saving measures in order to improve the outcome? Through the research, it became clear that in order to answer these questions, it would be necessary to work across disciplines and therefore a third Research Question was posed; How can UCD facilitate working across disciplines in the context of an energy research project? The results provide evidence of how UCD can effectively improve the design and development process of energy saving technologies, the process of retrofit and the practice of cross-disciplinary working within a research environment. The research is novel in several ways: firstly, the UCD process has been applied in the area of domestic retrofit, giving new insights into the barriers and opportunities to retrofit; secondly, home improvement has been investigated by viewing the home as a complete, interacting system, using novel methods; thirdly, a set of UCD specifications have been created to inform the design of heat pumps, a specific domestic energy saving technology, and finally, enhancements to the UCD process are made for use within an energy technology project, together with the development of six principles for effective cross-disciplinary working and conceptualisation of the bridge building role which the UCD practitioner fulfills.