Improvement on the Simultaneous Optimization Approach for Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis

• Published in: Industrial & engineering chemistry research Vol. 51; no. 18; pp. 6455 - 6460
• Main Authors: Li, Guoqing, Luo, Yushu, Xia, Yong, Hua, Ben
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC American Chemical Society 09.05.2012
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Chemical engineering; Computation; Cost engineering; Exact sciences and technology; Financing; Heat exchangers; Heat exchangers and evaporators; Mathematical models; Networks; Optimization; Streams; Heat exchanger; Optimization; Meshed network

In this article, three corrections are applied to improve the simultaneous optimization synthesis approach (SOSA) of heat exchanger networks (HENs). First, the temperature-dependent characteristics of process streams are considered in calculating their heat capacities, which are regarded as constant...