The Economic Thickness of Insulation for Steam Process Distribution Pipelines
This paper aims to confirm whether there is an optimal insulation thickness appropriate to the minimum total cost, and to see what the values and facts affecting the value of the minimum cost are. An optimization model is performed depending on Life Cycle Cost analysis. For this purpose, a computer program has been prepared based on the flow chart of the operation procedure overviewed in this paper. The results of Calculations carried out by the computer have given a new concept that is termed as " the critical thermal conductivity of insulation material " , the exceeding of which makes…