Identifying optimal cleaning cycles for heat exchangers subject to fouling and ageing

Applied Energy

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 60-66

  Pogiatzis, Thomas ^a   Ishiyama, Edward M ^a   Paterson, William R ^a   Vassiliadis, Vassilios S ^a   Wilson, D Ian ^a  

^a New Museums Site ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Cleaning; Fouling; Non linear programming; Optimisation; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

COKE; FOULING; GELS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

AGEING; CLEANING CYCLES; CLEANING METHODS; CLEANING-IN-PLACE METHODS; COUNTER CURRENT; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FOULING MITIGATION; GEL LAYERS; MECHANICAL CLEANING; OPTIMISATIONS; PROCESS MODEL; TWO LAYER MODEL;

CHEMICAL CLEANING;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEAT TRANSFER; HEURISTICS; NONLINEARITY; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 80053299724     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.01.063     Document Type: Article

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