Design Target Selection for Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis Based on Trade-off Plot

Optimal Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis Including Heat Transfer Equipment Design

This paper presents an optimisation model for the synthesis of heat exchanger networks (HEN) including the detailed design of the equipments formulated as a decomposition method. Shell and tube pressure drops and fouling are considered, as well as mechanical aspects, like shell and tube bundle diameters, internal and external diameter of tubes, number of tubes, number of baffles, number of shel...

Mathematical methods for heat exchanger network synthesis

This paper gives an overview of the evolution of mathematical methods for heat exchanger network synthesis over the last 25 years. Two major developments have been methods for targeting and methods for automated synthesis through simultaneous optimization. The former have helped to expand the scope and increase the accuracy of pinch based methods; the latter have provided a framework to automat...

Selection of Suitable Geometry in Compact Heat Exchanger Design

Selection of Suitable Geometry in Compact Heat Exchanger Design

An Efficient Coupled Genetic Algorithm-NLP Method for Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis

Synthesis of heat exchanger networks (HENs) is inherently a mixed integer and nonlinear programming (MINLP) problem. Solving such problems leads to difficulties <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #00...