Energy and Mass Balance

For many plant building projects, the creation of an energy and mass balance is indispensable to verify that the intended process concept is physically possible. The energy and mass balance can be done with a simple spreadsheet calculation or, depending on the complexity of the process concept, with specialized software. Usually, the minium requirement is the availability of a database with the thermodynamic properties of the process media. The energy and mass balance often serves as the basis for the sizing of the components of the plant.

The energy and mass balance often serves as a basis to investigate possibilities to simplify the plant and to reduce the number of the required components, as well as to increase the plant capacity.