Water network analysis in pulp and paper processes by pinch and linear programming techniques

Synthesis of batch water network for a brewery plant

“…This includes the chemical industry [8,[18][19][20][21][22][23], oil refineries [2,[24][25][26], pulp and paper mills [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37], the textile industry [38][39][40][41], and food and beverage plants [42][43][44][45]. Most of them deal with water integration in continuous processes, with the exception of batch applications in the textile industry, agrochemical plants [18], and the application in polyvinyl chloride resins manufacturing plant [8] (which operates in mixed batch and in continuous mode).…”

Pinch analysis approach to carbon-constrained energy sector planning

“…They are also useful for communicating results visually to decision-makers and stakeholders. Nowadays, pinch analysis is used in conjunction with rigorous mathematical modeling as part of an integrated approach to problem solving in order to take advantage of the useful features of each approach [32][33][34][35].…”

Synthesis of maximum water recovery network for batch process systems

“…Alva-Arga´ez and co-authors developed the integrated approach combining the insights from water pinch and mathematical programming in handing the mass transfer-based water recovery network synthesis problems [28,29]. The combination use of pinch and linear programming techniques was later presented by Jacob et al [43]. Optimisation-based approach was presented by Yang et al [44] and Dunn et al [41] for mass transfer and non-mass transfer-based processes, respectively.…”