A new methodology for the global optimization of heat exchanger networks is presented,
based on an outer approximation methodology, aided by physical insights. The problem is …

The mathematical programming approach for the synthesis of heat exchanger networks
provides a powerful, and versatile framework for the simultaneous optimization of energy …

Heat exchanger network optimization is a standard problem in process design. Various
mathematical models and heuristics have been developed to help the designer in …

In this work, the enumeration algorithms presented in Parts I and II for the globally optimal
synthesis of minimal and non‐minimal heat exchanger networks are extended to consider …

In this paper a global optimization algorithm is presented to rigorously solve the MINLP
model by Yee and Grossmann (1990) for the synthesis of heat exchanger networks under …

This paper deals with the global optimization of heat exchanger networks with fixed
topology. It is shown that if linear area cost functions are assumed, as well as arithmetic …

A sequential franiework (LP, MILP, NLP) for Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis (HENS) is
described that reduces significantly the numerical problems caused by non-linearities …

An overview of an iterative and sequential methodology, called the Sequential Framework
for heat exchanger network synthesis (HENS), is presented in the paper. The main objective …

We modify our recently introduced bound contraction methodology for global optimization of
bilinear MINLP models1 to solve the stage-wise superstructure model for heat exchanger …

The optimal design of large-scale heat exchanger networks is a quite difficult task not only
due to its non-linear characteristics but also due to a great number of local optima in its …