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Review: Important contributions in development and improvement of the heat integration techniques

“Babes-Bolyai” University, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Oxide Material Science, Arany Janos St., No. 11, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Computers & Chemical Engineering 01/2010; DOI:10.1016/j.compchemeng.2010.02.038 pp.1171-1179
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ABSTRACT The chemical processes and utility industries are central issues to modern living standards. The society evolution dictates that chemical processes will need continuous development and the advantages obtained of using process integration techniques consist in process improvement, increased productivity, energy conservation, pollution prevention, and capital and operating costs reductions of chemical plants.Therefore, the aim of this paper is to present in a comprehensive review the development through the years (1975–2008) of the heat integration and heat exchanger network synthesis (HENS) as a technique of process integration. From an impressive amount of studies related to this topic, a selection with the studies representing the turning points and the emerging trends in developing and improving of heat integration and HENS methods was made.The relationships between domains, authors, and journals, related with the field of research, are presented in an easy understanding visual format through the diagrams provided by CiteSpace II software.

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Keywords

comprehensive review
 
continuous development
 
costs reductions
 
diagrams
 
easy understanding visual format
 
emerging trends
 
energy conservation
 
heat exchanger network synthesis
 
heat integration
 
HENS methods
 
impressive amount
 
pollution prevention
 
process integration
 
process integration techniques
 
society evolution dictates
 
utility industries