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 …
Graphical tools are useful in the heat exchanger network (HEN) retrofit to maximise energy savings. The disadvantage of heuristic rules, which are usually applied to make retrofit …
This study presents developed approaches that could be used for retrofitting of existing heat exchanger networks (HENs) within individual processes and industrial sites to achieve lower …
Retrofit heat exchanger network (HEN) optimization is a fundamentally unique problem which requires the consideration of existing structures, compared to grassroots design …
D Fu, Z Yu, Y Lai - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
The retrofit of heat exchanger network often needs topology changes to overcome the network pinch to increase heat recovery. It is difficult to maximize energy recovery and …
Process Optimisation has been the core topic in chemical process industries for decades. However, the performance of the asset strongly influences the production efficiency as well …
Heat exchanger network (HEN) retrofit is a vital task in the process design to improve energy savings. Various types of heat exchangers such as shell and tube, double-pipe, compact …
C Yan, L Lv, A Eslamimanesh, W Shen - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
The petroleum refining industry is one of the most complex and energy-intensive separation units that produce various petroleum products from crude oil. In this work, an entire crude oil …
The aim of this paper is to develop a novel method for the retrofit of Heat Exchanger Networks based on Bridge Retrofit analysis. The method identifies Retrofit Bridges that …