Pinch analysis, built into the model
Minimum-utility energy targets and the heat recovery available by integration — from the flowsheet you already solved.
Targets from the model, automatically
Every heater, cooler, reboiler and condenser duty is extracted from the converged solve — no re-keying stream data into a separate energy tool.
Minimum utility targets (Linnhoff)
The Problem Table Algorithm computes the thermodynamic minimum hot and cold utility at your chosen ΔTmin — the headline number of a pinch study, before any exchanger is designed.
Heat recovery & the pinch
See how much heating and cooling the process can save by integrating heat instead of using utilities, and the pinch temperature that divides the problem.
Grand composite curve
The grand composite curve is plotted straight from the targeting — the shape that tells you where to place utilities and how much heat crosses the pinch.
ΔTmin sensitivity
Sweep the minimum approach and watch the utility targets and recovery move — the classic energy-vs-capital trade-off, live on the model.
One data model with cost & carbon
Recovered heat is fewer utility MWs — which is directly less cost (economics) and fewer emissions (sustainability). One model, three consequences.
Why this is different
A legacy energy analyzer is a separate application you feed stream data into by hand. Because MaximaLabs's simulator, energy targeting, cost estimator, and sustainability layer share one unified data model, the pinch targets update the instant the process changes — and the recovered megawatts flow straight through to cost and carbon.
Honest by design
- ✓Screening targeting: constant-CP linear streams (the standard targeting model), latent column reboiler/condenser loads represented as a narrow ΔTmin band at their operating temperature.
- ✓This computes energy targets — it does not synthesize the heat-exchanger network (the matches, areas and topology) that meets them. That's the next design step.
- ✓Existing heat exchangers in the flowsheet are already-integrated recovery and are not re-counted as a utility requirement — the target is for the process's raw heating/cooling loads.
- ✓The solver produces every duty and temperature; this layer only targets them — it never invents a process number.
From flowsheet to energy target in one place
Open the Energy panel on any solved simulation, pick a ΔTmin, and read the minimum utility targets, the pinch, and the heat recovery — with the grand composite curve.
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