A Novel Visualization Tool for Heat Exchanger Network Retrofit

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 4507-4522

  Lakshmanan, Ramachandran ^a   Bañares Alcántara, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSPECTION; RETROFITTING; THERMODYNAMICS; VISUALIZATION;

HEAT EXCHANGER NETWORK (HEN) RETROFITS;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 0030400058     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie960372+     Document Type: Article

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