The improvement of heat recovery in the industry has traditionally been approached from
two different viewpoints–Process Intensification and Process Integration. Many of the …

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

Energy-saving heat recovery in an industrial heat exchanger network may by impaired by
fouling build-up on heat transfer surfaces of the exchangers. During longer periods of …

Heat exchanger fouling may impair energy recovery in Heat Exchanger Networks (HENs),
thereby increasing the energy intensity of production processes. Fouling growth on the heat …

Fouling is a crucial problem in refinery HEN (heat exchanger network) that reduces heat
transfer and affects regular production. The conventional way to mitigate fouling is cleaning …

Crude oil distillation is an atmospheric distillation column using a furnace. It consumes about
50% of the energy required in an oil refinery plant. To reduce energy requirements, it is …

Fouling of the inside of tubes in crude oil preheat systems increases pressure drop and
pumping costs. In this paper, a method is proposed for optimizing crude oil velocity to reduce …

Heat exchanger networks are structures composed of a set of heat exchangers
interconnected in order to reduce utilities consumption. During the network operation, heat …

Crude preheat trains are heat exchanger networks which heat the crude oil stream in the
petroleum distillation using hot product streams and pumparounds. The final heating step is …

This paper addresses the identification of the optimal set of heat exchangers to be cleaned
during a plant maintenance shutdown. The proposed methodology is based on the …