Simultaneous Optimization Strategy of Cost-optimal Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis with PSO Algorithm

2017 Revista Técnica de la Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad del Zulia  
In this paper, a novel solution strategy based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is developed for simultaneous optimization of cost-optimal heat exchanger network synthesis (HENS). Compared to sequential method, simultaneous approach usually needs establishing a more complicated mixed integer nonlinear program (MINLP) model that has complex multi-peak search space. Our work is trying to develop an efficient optimization algorithm to solve the complicated model. The proposed
more » ... is applied to four examples taken from previous research about HENS, and the results prove that the method is more effective to HENS problems.
doi:10.21311/001.39.12.23 fatcat:ftnb6cka2bbfzbo3cun3kig3re