Highlights•Heat Integration (HI) has been an initial part of Process Integration (PI) for more
40 years now.•HI development has accelerated over the years.•The main two approaches …

The improvement of heat recovery in the industry has traditionally been approached from
two different viewpoints–Process Intensification and Process Integration. Many of the …

The present study experimentally investigates the effects of nanofluid concentration on
forced convective heat transfer in an ultrasonic vibrating finned tube heat exchanger. A …

Current and future challenges of optimization in the process industry are discussed. The gap
between academic research and industrial workflow is analyzed. Moreover, issues arising …

This article first reviews recent developments in process synthesis and discusses some of
the major challenges in the theory and practice in this area. Next, the article reviews key …

Water network synthesis has been an active area of research for the past one and a half
decades. Many think that the technology reached a mature stage in the late 1990s …

This work presents a review of the main deterministic mixed‐integer nonlinear programming
(MINLP) solution methods for problems with convex and nonconvex functions. An overview …

Despite the economic benefits of flowsheet optimization, many commercial tools suffer from
long computational times, limited problem formulation flexibility and numerical instabilities …

Discrete‐continuous optimization problems are commonly modeled in algebraic form as
mixed‐integer linear or nonlinear programming models. Since these models can be …

A gradient free optimization-simulation method for processes modelled with the simulator
Aspen HYSYS is developed. The tool is based on a Tabu Search (TS) and the Nelder-Mead …