• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.87-96
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• 1992

Two major difficulties with finding an optimal solution to the heat exchanger network synthesis problems are the large solutionspace and the uncertainty in the formulation of the annual cost function. In this work, to overcome the first difficulty a problem reduction technique was developed. The second difficulty was also removed by dividing the annual cost function into four cost items. The optimal network structure for minimum equipment cost is then obtained by repeatedly applying the problem reduction technique and the heuristics in turn. The efficiency and the superiority of the method is demonstrated by examining two selected example problems.

• Plant Journal
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.24-30
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• 2016

The membrane separation processes have received attention due to advantages such as compactness, modularity, ease of installation, flexibility of operation, lower capital cost and lower energy consumption. In this study, we evaluated accuracy of cross-flow, co-current and counter-current models. With the most accurate model, we identified the operating conditions of the two-stage membrane separation and examined the effects of permeance and selectivity of the membrane by simulation. Futhermore, power requirements and operating cost savings due to the introduction of the heat exchanger were investigated by applying heat exchanger network synthesis technique in the two-stage membrane separation using vapor sweep.

• Plant Journal
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.24-31
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• 2016

Wind-induced vibration is a phenomenon that a struture is oscillated due to wind force such as buffeting, vortex shedding wake and etc., which is one of important characteristics to be considered for design in case that stack has significant slenderness ratio or low natural frequency. International design standards of stack define several criteria for evaluating the suitability of stack design, which describe the required design considerations for each range of design parameters and provide the instruction to verify the stack design against wind-induced vibration simply. However, there is a limitation that they cannot provide quantitative information in case code requirement cannot be satisfied due to constraints of plant space or economical design. In order to overcome the limiation of code, integrated numerical analysis of computational fluid dynamics, harmonic analysis and finite element analysis were proposed to investigate wind-induced vibration for multiple stacks in actual plant. Simulated results of mutual wake interference effect between adjacent stacks were evaluated and compared to the criteria in international standards.