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 …

Heat exchanger network synthesis is an essential optimisation tool for Process Integration,
particularly in energy-intensive industries. Proper design or retrofit of heat exchanger …

A systematic procedure is presented for the synthesis of flexible heat exchanger networks
that involve specified uncertainties in the flowrates and inlet temperatures of the process …

A large number of process synthesis and design problems in chemical engineering can be
modeled as mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems. They involve …

Three novel types of sensitivity analysis are presented. They determine the following: 1) the
sensitivity of a ranking to specific changes in the evaluations of all alternatives on certain …

This paper presents a review of advances that have taken place in the mathematical
programming approach to process design and synthesis. A review is first presented on the …

Several technologies for synthesis gas (syngas) refining are introduced into a
thermochemical based superstructure that will convert biomass, coal, and natural gas to …

A framework is presented for generating flexible heat exchanger networks (HENs) over a
specified range of variations in the flow rates and temperatures of the streams. The flexible …

This article introduces the “state space” conceptual framework to process synthesis, which is
used to provide a novel representation of a distillation network as a composite heat‐and …

This paper addresses a methodology for the optimal conceptual design of thermochemical
fuel production processes from biomass. A decomposed modelling approach with separate …