A systematic design methodology is developed in this work for simultaneously synthesizing
the multi-contaminant water-allocation and heat exchange network (WAHEN) in any …

The rapid development of computational technology and the increasing energy demand
have improved heat exchanger network (HEN) synthesis. The HEN synthesis involves …

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This paper provides a critical review of the literature on heat-exchanger network synthesis,
the most commonly studied problem in process synthesis. After a review of solution …

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Waste heat accounts for up to 70% of input energy in industrial processes which enunciates
the importance of energy recovery measures to improve efficiency and reduce excessive …

Part 1 of this paper presented a procedure for the design of near-optimum cost heat
exchanger networks. The procedure is based on setting targets for capital and energy costs …

This paper presents a generalized method for the synthesis of heat-exchanger networks
(HENs) based on genetic algorithms (GAs). This approach is a modification of the algorithm …

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 …