Scheduling the cleaning actions for a fouled heat exchanger subject to ageing: MINLP formulation

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue , 2012, Pages 179-185

  Pogiatzis, Thomas A ^a   Wilson, D Ian ^a   Vassiliadis, Vassilios S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Cleaning; Fouling; Heat exchangers; MINLP; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

AGEING; AGEING RATES; CLEANING METHODS; DISCRETE LAYERS; MINLP; MIXED INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING MODELS; OPTIMAL SCHEDULE;

FOULING; HEAT EXCHANGERS; SCHEDULING;

CLEANING;

EID: 84857441734     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2011.12.012     Document Type: Article

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