A comprehensive review of recent advancements and developments in heat exchanger network synthesis techniques

Y Xu, WW Liu, L Zhang, GM Cui, Y Xiao… - Science China …, 2024 - Springer
The rapid development of computational technology and the increasing energy demand
have improved heat exchanger network (HEN) synthesis. The HEN synthesis involves …

Optimal heat exchanger network synthesis: A case study comparison

M Escobar, JO Trierweiler - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2013 - Elsevier
Heat exchanger network synthesis (HENS) is one of the most extensively studied
synthesis/design problem in chemical engineering. This is attributed to the importance of …

Optimization route arrangement: A new concept to achieve high efficiency and quality in heat exchanger network synthesis

Y Xu, G Cui, X Han, Y Xiao, G Zhang - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2021 - Elsevier
Heuristic algorithms are widely used in the global optimization of heat exchanger network
synthesis (HENS). However, since heuristic algorithms are often characterized by a …

Non-structural model for heat exchanger network synthesis allowing for stream splitting

HA Kayange, G Cui, Y Xu, J Li, Y Xiao - Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
For more than three decades, heat exchanger network (HEN) synthesis has been primarily
addressed by defining initial structures that embed different design alternatives, and near …

Efficient synthesis of heat exchanger networks combining heuristic approaches with a genetic algorithm

C Brandt, G Fieg, X Luo - Heat and mass transfer, 2011 - Springer
In this work an innovative method for heat exchanger network (HEN) synthesis is introduced
and examined. It combines a genetic algorithm (GA) with a heuristic based optimization …

A new nodes-based model for optimization of heat exchanger network synthesis

Y Xu, AK Heri, Y Xiao, G Cui - Journal of Thermal Science, 2021 - Springer
Searching the global optimal value in heat exchanger network synthesis (HENS) becomes
more difficult along with the increasing scale of cases. In structural optimization model, such …

A principle of stream arrangement based on uniformity factor for heat exchanger networks synthesis

Q He, G Cui - Applied thermal engineering, 2013 - Elsevier
Heat exchanger network synthesis (HENS) has been one of the most extensively studied
synthesis problem in chemical engineering. The methodologies commonly used to solve a …

Optimal heat exchanger network synthesis using particle swarm optimization

AP Silva, MASS Ravagnani, EC Biscaia… - Optimization and …, 2010 - Springer
Heat exchanger network (HEN) synthesis has been a well-studied subject over the past
decades. Many studies and methodologies were proposed to make possible the energy …

Heat exchanger network synthesis without stream splits using parallelized and simplified simulated annealing and particle swarm optimization

LV Pavão, CBB Costa, MASS Ravagnani - Chemical Engineering Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Much attention has been paid to heat exchanger network (HEN) synthesis and optimization
by using meta-heuristic approaches. In general, Simulated Annealing (SA) is able to provide …

A flexible model with an adjustable number of nodes for efficient and high-quality heat exchanger network synthesis

Y Xu, L Liu, G Cui - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2020 - ACS Publications
Obtaining precise and efficient solutions of large-scale cases is one of the main obstacles of
heat exchanger network synthesis (HENS) technologies. Due to the absence of abundant …