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A Multiagent Approach for Sustainable Design of Heat Exchanger Networks

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Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2010)

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Abstract

Pinch technology is a familiar energy-saving technology in the chemical industries and has been incorporated in the process simulation software, however the skilled engineers’ considerations are required to make preferable heat exchanger networks (HEN). We introduced a multiagent oriented simulation framework into the HEN design to save the energy usage and also reduce the CO2 emissions. In our framework, a number of “HEN design agents” have their own strategies to optimize HEN respectively. In this paper, we show the effectiveness of our framework applying to two chemical processes.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan

    Naoki Kimura, Kizuki Yasue, Tekishi Kou & Yoshifumi Tsuge

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  1. School of Engineering, The Parade, Cardiff University, CF24 3AA, Cardiff, UK

    Rossitza Setchi

  2. Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering, BUckingham Building, Lion Terrace, University of Portsmouth, PO1 3HE, Portsmouth, UK

    Ivan Jordanov

  3. KES International, 145-157 St. John Street, EC1V 4PY, London, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  4. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Mawson Lakes Campus, 5095, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Kimura, N., Yasue, K., Kou, T., Tsuge, Y. (2010). A Multiagent Approach for Sustainable Design of Heat Exchanger Networks. In: Setchi, R., Jordanov, I., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6277. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15390-7_42

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