The pursuit toward an environmentally sustainable energy landscape requires the development of economically competitive renewable processes. Efficient utilization of …
W Verheyen, N Zhang - Chemical engineering science, 2006 - Elsevier
Heat exchanger networks (HENs) increase heat recovery from industrial processes by matching hot and cold streams to exchange heat and reducing utility consumption. The …
M Morar, PS Agachi - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2010 - Elsevier
The chemical processes and utility industries are central issues to modern living standards. The society evolution dictates that chemical processes will need continuous development …
F Peng, G Cui - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
The simultaneous synthesis of heat exchanger network is primarily regarded as mixed integer nonlinear programming models and its combinatorial nature can easily lead to a …
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 …
IE Grossmann - Computers & chemical engineering, 1985 - Elsevier
This paper discusses the problem of developing algorithmic methods for synthesizing chemical processes. It is shown that mixed-integer programming is the natural underlying …
Simulated annealing is a multivariable optimization technique based on the Monte Carlo method used in statistical mechanical studies of condensed systems and follows by drawing …
Heat exchanger network synthesis (HENS) has been the subject of a significant amount of research over the last 40 years. While significant progress has been made towards solving …
RC Baliban, JA Elia, CA Floudas - Energy & Environmental Science, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
An optimization-based process synthesis framework is proposed for the thermochemical conversion of biomass to liquid fuels (BTL). Gasification of biomass is used to generate …