ANÁLISE DE SISTEMA DE RESFRIAMENTO EM EMPRESA DE RERREFINO DE ÓLEO LUBRIFICANTE

Abstract

This work shows the performance of an analysis of a cooling system in a factory, where it has, throughout its system, equipment and production processes out of operation, in order to present an optimization of the system with a possible deactivation of one of the two cooling towers installed, aiming at cost reduction on water and electricity consumption in the company. For this, the operating data of the production process was collected, the data of the cooling system equipment, and through this data, a brief calculation of efficiency and heat flow to confirm the data and then the feasibility analysis of the possible optimization. Throughout the development of the data collection, it was possible to notice the over-dimensioning in the part of thermal exchange, however, in the fluid-mechanical part the conditions would not allow a deactivation of one of the equipment, being presented at the end a proposal where a deactivation of a tower could happen cooling system that would also increase electricity consumption, making optimization unfeasible.