Optimal Synthesis of Heat Exchanger Networks

This chapter presents an introduction to energy integration between process streams for waste heat recovery and process integration. Then several approaches for optimally integrating the energy of process streams are presented. Particularly, the transshipment model, the extended transshipment model, and the synheat and isosynheat formulations are discussed. Several examples are presented to show the applicability of these approaches. Furthermore, the corresponding GAMS codes are presented for implementation to solve different cases.