A visual representation of process heat exchange as a basis for user interaction and stochastic optimization

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 765-776

  Fraga, E S ^a   Patel, R ^a   Rowe, G W A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Graphical user interface; Heat exchanger network synthesis; Optimization; Simulated annealing; Visualization

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIMULATED ANNEALING; VISUALIZATION;

HEAT EXCHANGER NETWORK SYNTHESIS;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

DESIGN; HEAT EXCHANGER; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; STOCHASTIC PROCESS;

EID: 0035470996     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1205/026387601753191948     Document Type: Article

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