SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SYNTHESIZING NON-CONSTRAINED AND CONSTRAINED HEAT EXCHANGER NETWORKS

摘要

Systems (30), methods, and program product (51) to synthesize a grass-roots heat exchanger network for a plurality of hot process streams (H1..Hn) to be cooled and a plurality of cold process streams (C1..Cn) to be heated according to a plurality of utilities targets, are provided. An exemplary system (30) includes a heat exchange network synthesizing computer (31) and heat exchange network synthesizing program product (51) configured to analyze the waste heat recovery problem without decomposition to produce a result having an optimal number of network heat exchanger units (211, 212, 221, 222) through application of advanced process-to-process matching schemes for both non-constrained and non-thermodynamically constrained problems.