The chemical processes and utility industries are central issues to modern living standards.
The society evolution dictates that chemical processes will need continuous development …

Process integration is a holistic approach to process design and operation which
emphasizes the unity of the process. Process integration design tools have been developed …

The research in process integration started in the late 1970s and early 1980s with an
emphasis on energy conservation. Systematic methods for the design of heat exchanger …

This paper provides a critical review of the literature on heat-exchanger network synthesis,
the most commonly studied problem in process synthesis. After a review of solution …

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 industrial heat exchanger network synthesis (HENS) problem is very complex and
involves combinatorial problems in the “matching” between hot and cold streams to enhance …

Many methods have been proposed for heat exchanger network (HEN) synthesis. The
algorithmic methods rely heavily on sophisticated mathematical programming techniques …

The simultaneous heat exchanger network (HEN) synthesis optimization problem is
generally formulated as a mixed integer non-linear program (MINLP) by using the concept of …

Heat exchanger network (HEN) retrofitting improves heat recovery and thus reduces energy
required in existing plants. This can be achieved by either increasing the heat transfer area …

This paper combines mathematical optimization techniques with a better understanding of
the retrofit problem, based on thermodynamic analysis and practical engineering, to produce …