Synthesis of heat exchanger networks using genetic algorithms

Development of an exergy-electrical analogy for visualizing and modeling building integrated energy systems

“…Within this point of view, this analogy can be very helpful for implemented mathematical calculations; in particular the use of Lewin et al [4] matrices appears as a natural application of the proposed methodology. It must be pointed out that a similar procedure was successfully tackled in the past to optimize large heatexchanger networks [5]. Hence, Lewin's matrices were used for optimizing heat-exchangers super-structures which in some extent are similar to those presented in Figs.…”

“…From an optimization point of view, the proposed methodology permits appropriate equivalent electrical switches that control the flow of energy to be implemented, and thus to represent all possible system states to satisfy different constraint conditions. This particular fact can be extremely helpful for performing optimization calculations by using a matrix approach as proposed by Lewin et al [4] and used by Dipama et al [5].…”

Recent developments in Process Integration

“…Dipama et al (2008) applied genetic algorithms for HEN synthesis and Azad and Amidpour (2011) for the optimisation of shell-and-tube heat-exchangers. With respect to global optimisation, several approaches have been proposed recently, e.g.…”

Review of metaheuristics applied to heat exchanger network design

“…The reason is that this structure can be coded using a binary representation, which is a common codification used in GA. In contrast, the inner level has been optimized not only using GA (Dipama et al., ), but also using mathematical optimization procedures (Rezaei and Shafiei, ). For example, authors such as Lewin (), Lewin et al.…”