SUN Lin, ZHAO Ye, LUO Xionglin. Synthesis of multi-pass heat exchanger network based on pinch technology and superstructure model[J]. CIESC Journal, 2014, (3): 967-975.
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SUN Lin, ZHAO Ye, LUO Xionglin. Synthesis of multi-pass heat exchanger network based on pinch technology and superstructure model[J]. CIESC Journal, 2014, (3): 967-975.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0438-1157.2014.03.029.
Synthesis of multi-pass heat exchanger network based on pinch technology and superstructure model
synthesis of the heat exchanger network (HEN) with multi-pass was performed based on pinch technology
and a two-stage method was presented by using the mathematical programming methodology and pinch technology simultaneously. Firstly
the minimum temperature difference for the multi-pass HEN was optimized based on thermodynamic analysis
and then utility costs were calculated. At the second stage
according to the obtained optimal minimum temperature difference the pinch location was defined
and the corresponding HEN could be divided into two sub-networks: above the pinch point and under the pinch point. Then streams matches were optimized by using the superstructure model for the multi-pass HEN. Consequently
to minimize total cost
the multi-pass HEN was synthesized by balancing capital cost and operation cost. Case studies demonstrated the effectiveness and application prospect of the presented method.