A resource-task network approach for optimal short-term/periodic scheduling and heat integration in multipurpose batch plants

Optimal scheduling of single stage batch plants with direct heat integration

“…It is the most recent and perhaps most general in a series (Majozi, 2006;Chen and Chang, 2009;Stamp and Majozi, 2011) that has handled heat integration by adding new sets of constraints to well known, single and multiple time grid, standalone continuous-time scheduling formulations. In particular, and compared to the work by Stamp and Majozi (2011), the integration between a task and other tasks is no longer limited to a single time interval and temperature changes during processing of tasks are allowed.…”

Heat integration of intermittently available continuous streams in multipurpose batch plants

“…The optimization of heat storage size was later considered by Stamp and Majozi (2011). Chen and Chang (2009) integrated the scheduling and heat recovery problems into a unified framework for a simultaneous solution. Their work addresses both short-term and periodic scheduling.…”

The synthesis of cost optimal heat exchanger networks with unconstrained topology

“…The most recent publications about applications of process integration (see, e.g., [1][2][3][4][5]) and various aspects of HEN synthesis (see, e.g., [6][7][8][9][10]) confirm the interest of the research community in this field, the ultimate aim of which is cleaner production.…”

“…Heat exchanger surfaces are calculated assuming a counter-current heat transfer: (2) in which the heat transfer coefficient is:…”