Pinch analysis plays a vital role through graphical representation in guiding rational energy
utilization and cost savings. Stream data in graphical tools provide intuitive visual insights for …

Thermal processes constitute a significant portion of energy consumption in the industrial
sector. In this context, pinch analysis has emerged as a powerful method for achieving …

Heuristic algorithms are widely used in the global optimization of heat exchanger network
synthesis (HENS). However, since heuristic algorithms are often characterized by a …

Pinch Analysis is for decades a leading tool to energy integration for retrofit and design. This
paper presents a new graphical technique, based on Pinch Analysis, for the grassroots …

This thesis pioneers to consider the time response in the heat exchanger network (HEN)
multi-period design problem. We define the transition time (TT) as an indicator to measure …

Efficiently solving large-scale heat exchanger network (HEN) synthesis problems remains a
challenging task mainly due to the presence of discontinuity caused by integer variables as …

Pinch Analysis is an established insight-based methodology for design of energy-efficient
processes. The Composite Curves (CCs) is a popular Pinch Analysis tool to target the …

Heat exchanger networks (HENs) play a significant role in the energy conservation of any
process industry. The HENs are used to maximize heat recovery by exchanging heat …

A minimum rule (MR) is developed for use as a tool in the synthesis of a process-to-process
(PTP) heat exchanger network (HEN) to achieve optimal heat exchange. The rule uses the …

In synthesizing optimal heat recovery networks, Composite Curve (CC) plots and Problem
Table Algorithms (PTAs) have been the most popular tools for determining the minimum …