Industrial wastewater collection using a separation technique

Water is an essential element within normal functioning throughout the chemical industry. The reuse of water, or more precisely water condensate collection, is very important during real chemical processes because it can reduce raw materials, energy losses, and costs, and can improve the operations of energy and process systems.The effect of industrial activity on the environment has attracted considerable attention over the past few decades. Industry, therefore, has started looking at methods of reducing the volumes of produced wastewater. This paper presents the industrial separation of lower and higher temperature condensates’ collection using the heating utility of steam production, by separation techniques. The existing condensate collection regarding utilities’ preparation for steam-generation may no longer be optimal; the basic intention is that minimal changes in the system can produce an efficient improvement by using separate collections of low and high-temperature condensates, and the use of available heat with little heat flow rate loss. This separated water condensate collection preparation for the utility of steam production by using a separation technique and MINLP (mixed-integer nonlinear programming) was tested on an existing methanol process, which allowed for an efficient and additional 7% water condensate collection system for steam-generation.