Costs and environmental impacts multi-objective heat exchanger networks synthesis using a meta-heuristic approach

L.V. Pavão, C.B.B. Costa, M.A.S.S. Ravagnani and L. Jiménez

Applied Energy, 2017, vol. 203, issue C, 304-320

Abstract: Heat Exchanger Network (HEN) synthesis approaches based on total annual costs (TAC) optimization can reduce CO2 emissions and electricity used in plants, since the use of utilities is reduced with a cost-optimal design. However, environmental impacts (EI) are not explicitly addressed in such methods. Life cycle assessment (LCA) metrics can quantify EI and can be used as objective function. This work proposes a meta-heuristic approach to perform a multi-objective optimization (MOO) of TAC and EI in medium and large-scale HEN. The method developed efficiently achieves near-Pareto fronts for four industrial-size case studies. Optimal-TAC and optimal-EI solutions, as well as configurations with low EI but still competitive TAC are presented. Cost-optimal solutions reported in the literature are compared with non-dominated solutions obtained in this work with similar TAC. In all cases, the approach developed is able to achieve solutions with remarkably lower EI, demonstrating the importance of multi-criteria optimization in HEN synthesis.

Keywords: Life cycle assessment; Multi-objective optimization; Pareto solutions; Heat exchanger networks; Meta-heuristics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.06.015

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