What are the uses and benefits of pinch analysis?
Pinch analysis provides the following uses and benefits:
- Holistic systematic approach and optimization (system design, energy supply, operating and investment costs)
- Critically analyse the processes from an energetic perspective from both an internal and external perspective; avoids operational blindness
- Shows where the energy is currently needed in the process; An important element of an energy management systems
- Clear statement regarding the "absolute" energy saving potential
- Saving energy also means reducing CO₂ emissions
- Prevents incorrect investments in measures to increase efficiency that do not work, e.g. incorrectly integrated heat pumps.
- Strategic planning of measures
- Provides key information and data on how energy supply, including solar energy and/or energy storage, should be sensibly integrated and dimensioned.
- Does it make energetic sense to connect entire industrial zones, etc.