Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for work.
- Calculate heat transferred from/to items.
- Calculate temperature change
- Select appropriate heating and/or cooling mechanism for an application.
- Conduct energy balance over process components.
- Determine desired boundaries for energy balance calculation
- Determine possible sources of data required from the plant
- Match and adjust sources of data to desired boundary for energy balance
- Determine overall heating load
- Determine overall cooling load
- Determine the adequacy (or otherwise) of the process/plant heating/cooling system to cope with this load.