Profit-based grassroots design and retrofit of water networks in process plants

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  • Débora C. Faria
  • Miguel J. Bagajewicz
چکیده

In this paper, we present a methodology for the grassroots design and/or retrofit of water utilization systems using mathematical optimization to maximize net present value (NPV) and/or return of investment (ROI) insteadofminimizing freshwater consumption. The examples show that the solutionswhere savings and/or profit are maximized can be different from those where freshwater is minimized. They also differ ccepted 1 October 2008 vailable online 21 October 2008 eywords: ater systems ater reuse from each other when ROI or NPV are used. In addition, when the NPV objective is used, the optimum solutions also vary depending on the interest rate used to calculate the discount factor. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. r T i h m n m o p c W c i w p w b f i s rassroots design etrofit

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Computers & Chemical Engineering

دوره 33  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009