Improving the energy efficiency in heat exchanger networks (HENs) remains a significant industrial problem, specifically energy-intensive operations. A particular method for such an objective is modification of HENs at equipment-use level, where structural changes take place and units within network are moved, replaced and/or removed. This practice usually known as retrofit. The retrofit to max...

This work proposes a novel approach for the simultaneous synthesis of Heat Exchanger Networks (HEN) and Utility Systems. Given a set of hot and cold process streams and a set of available utility systems (e.g., gas turbine, steam cycle, boiler, etc), the method determines the optimal selection of utility systems, their arrangement and design (including steam generator), and the heat exchanger n...

The continued high cost of energy has mandated that the Chemical Process Industries reduce operational and capital costs through process heat integration. However, the heat integration of process streams can lead to process structures that are difficult to operate and control. This paper addresses the control of heat exchanger networks and it shows the importance of dynamic simulations in the s...

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...

retrofit of heat exchanger networks for energy saving and/or debottlenecking is one of important aspects of process engineering. pinch technology, as the most efficient tool for the analysis of these networks, has been applied to hundreds of such projects and shown satisfactory results. however, all the existing methods for debottlenecking, using pinch technology, are either based on assumed he...

Common methods to design heat exchanger networks (HENs) by pinch technology usually need an evolutionary step to reduce the number of heat transfer units. This step <span style="font-size: 10pt; color:...

heat exchangers are the critical components of refrigeration and liquefaction processes. selection of appropriate operational conditions for cryogenic recuperative heat exchanger and expansion valve operating in joule-thomson cooling system results in improving the performance and efficiency. in the current study, a straightforward procedure is introduced to design an efficient joule-thomson co...

Oil refinery is one of industries that require huge energy consumption. The today technology advance requires energy saving. Heat integration is a method used to minimize the energy comsumption though the implementation of Heat Exchanger Network (HEN). CPT is one of types of Heat Exchanger Network (HEN) that functions to recover the heat in the flow of product or waste. HEN comprises a number o...

Large amounts of thermal energy are transferred between fluids for heating or cooling in industry as well as in the residential and service sectors. Typical examples are crude oil preheating, ethylene plants, pulp and paper plants, breweries, plants with exothermic and endothermic reactions, space heating, and coolccepted 17 January 2011 vailable online 25 January 2011 eywords: ynamic heat exch...