AUTOMATIC EVOLUTION OF HEAT EXCHANGER NETWORKS WITH SIMULTANEOUS HEAT EXCHANGER DESIGN

An NLP Approach for Evolution of Heat Exchanger Networks Designed by Pinch Technology

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:...

Optimization of Heat Exchanger Networks by Means of Evolution Strategies

This paper describes the adaptation of Evolution Strategies (ESs) for simulation based heat exchanger network synthesis. Due to space limitations the presentation is restricted to a brief overview of the application domain, the problems and pitfalls we encountered during the project and hints to solutions. Some of these problems are of general relevance for the application of Evolutionary Algor...

Selection of Suitable Geometry in Compact Heat Exchanger Design

Selection of Suitable Geometry in Compact Heat Exchanger Design

Cost-Effective Bypass Design of Highly Controllable Heat-Exchanger Networks

( ) Design of a cost-effecti®e and highly controllable heat-exchanger network HEN has drawn a great deal of attention for years. One of the key issues in such a design is how to effecti®ely minimize undesirable disturbance propagation in a network with minimum cost increment. Design options in this regard include the deri®ation of a superior network structure and the selection of bypasses assoc...