An innovative damping random walk algorithm with compulsive evolution for the synthesis of heat exchanger networks

X Huang, W Liu, H Duan, Y Xu, Y Xiao, G Cui - Applied Thermal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Heat exchanger network synthesis in process system engineering poses a significant
challenge, primarily because of the intricacies of stream matches and the nonlinear nature of …

A novel random walk algorithm with compulsive evolution combined with an optimum-protection strategy for heat exchanger network synthesis

Z Bao, G Cui, J Chen, T Sun, Y Xiao - Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Random walk algorithm with compulsive evolution is a novel stochastic method with strong
global search ability for heat exchanger network synthesis; however, its mutation behavior of …

[HTML][HTML] Intelligent search strategy applied in heat exchanger network synthesis

Y Xu, G Cui - Energy Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Heat exchanger network (HEN) synthesis has been acknowledged as an effective design
technique to achieve significant energy savings in a wide range of industrial and …

A novel random walk algorithm with compulsive evolution for heat exchanger network synthesis

Y Xiao, G Cui - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
The heat exchanger network (HEN) synthesis can be characterized as highly combinatorial,
nonlinear and nonconvex, contributing to unmanageable computational time and a …

An integrated random walk algorithm with compulsive evolution and fine-search strategy for heat exchanger network synthesis

Y Xiao, G Cui, T Sun, J Chen - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Heat exchanger network synthesis has been extensively studied in process system
engineering for its complexity and difficulty resulting from stream matches and the …

An anti-greedy random walk algorithm for heat exchanger network synthesis

X Huang, Y Xu, Y Xiao, L Shan, H Duan… - … Engineering Research and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Heat exchanger network (HEN) synthesis is a vibrant research field in process system
engineering, with substantial contributions to energy conservation and emissions reduction …

Node dynamic adaptive non-structural model for efficient synthesis of heat exchanger networks

Y Xiao, HA Kayange, G Cui, W Li - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
Balancing the trade-off between structural diversity (solution space) and optimization
efficiency is an urgent challenge in the modeling and global optimization of heat exchanger …

An improved treble-level assisting optimization strategy to enhance algorithm search ability in heat exchanger network design

Y Xu, J Li, G Cui, G Zhang, Q Yang - Journal of the Taiwan Institute of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Heat exchanger network synthesis is widely used for saving energy in the chemical
engineering field. In the design stage, a multiple-level strategy is useful for assisting the …

Heat exchanger network synthesis without stream splits using parallelized and simplified simulated annealing and particle swarm optimization

LV Pavão, CBB Costa, MASS Ravagnani - Chemical Engineering Science, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Efficient algorithm for simultaneous synthesis of heat exchanger networks

K feng Huang, IA Karimi - Chemical Engineering Science, 2014 - Elsevier
The mathematical programming based simultaneous approaches for heat exchanger
network synthesis (HENS) result in large, complex, non-convex mixed-integer nonlinear …