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 …

Heat Exchanger Network (HEN) synthesis is an important field of study in process
engineering. However, obtaining optimal HEN design is a complex task. When …

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 …

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 …

The rapid development of computational technology and the increasing energy demand
have improved heat exchanger network (HEN) synthesis. The HEN synthesis involves …

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 …

In this article, three corrections are applied to improve the simultaneous optimization
synthesis approach (SOSA) of heat exchanger networks (HENs). First, the temperature …

When applying the nodes-based non-structural model (NNM) in optimizing heat exchanger
networks, the reasonable adjusting the nodes' parameters (number of stream splitting and …

Heat exchanger network synthesis (HENS) is faced with the dilemma of substantial
nonisothermal mixing and nonconstant thermal properties of streams against the higher …

This work presents new systematic approaches for the synthesis of heat exchanger networks
(HENs) relying on efficient optimization models. The basic idea consists of partitioning the …