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 …
S Chakraborty, P Ghosh - Chemical Engineering Journal, 1999 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new approach to heat exchanger network (HEN) design making extensive use of randomization techniques. It is exceedingly simple to implement and gives …
M Escobar, JO Trierweiler - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2013 - Elsevier
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 (HEN) synthesis can be formulated as an optimization problem, which can be solved by meta-heuristics. These approaches account for a large …
Y Xu, WW Liu, L Zhang, GM Cui, Y Xiao… - Science China …, 2024 - Springer
The rapid development of computational technology and the increasing energy demand have improved heat exchanger network (HEN) synthesis. The HEN synthesis involves …
Abstract Heat Exchanger Networks (HEN) synthesis is a process engineering problem that can be mathematically characterized as highly combinatory, non-linear and non-convex. All …
K Shivakumar, S Narasimhan - Computers & chemical engineering, 2002 - Elsevier
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 …
Q He, G Cui - Applied thermal engineering, 2013 - Elsevier
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 …
M Rathjens, G Fieg - Applied thermal engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work optimal synthesis of heat exchanger networks (HENs) is focused on, namely the minimization of total annual costs (TAC). An efficient combination of optimization strategies …