• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.119-126
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• 1995

The purpose of this study is to develop the technique of energy recovery and energy saving by using the optimization of heat exchanger network synthesis. This article proposes a new method of determining the optimal target of a heat exchanger network synthesis problem of which data feature multiple pinch points. The system separation method we suggest here is to subdivide the original system into independent subsystems with one pinch point. The optimal cost target was evaluated and the original pinch rules at each subsystem were employed. The software developed in this study was applied to the Alko prosess, which is an alcohol production process, for the synthesis of heat exchanger network. It was possible to save about 15% of the total annual cost.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1996년도 Proceedings of the Korea Automatic Control Conference, 11th (KACC); Pohang, Korea; 24-26 Oct. 1996
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• pp.376-379
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• 1996

Synthesis for qualitative analysis in connection with quantitative analysis from the pinch design method, EVOP and Operations Research is proposed for the optimal synthesis of heat exchanger networks, that is through of the transportation model of the linear programming for synthesizing chemical processing systems, to determine the location of pinch points, the stream matches and the corresponding heat flowrate exchanged at each match. In the second place, according to the optimization, the optimal design of heat transfer enhancement is carried on a fixed optimum heat exchanger network structure, in which this design determines optimal operational parameters and the chosen type of heat exchangers as well. Finally, the method of this paper is applied to the study of the optimal synthetic design of heat exchanger network of constant-decompress distillation plants.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1989년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집; Seoul, Korea; 27-28 Oct. 1989
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• pp.819-824
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• 1989

This paper proposes a new method for the discovery and design of an optimal heat exchanger network. The method is based upon the concept of pinch, a problem reduction technique and the heuristics developed in this work. It generates subproblems in a logical way and solves the subproblems by the heuristics to synthesize an optimal network structure. It is thought that the heuristics can preserve the minimum utility consumption, the minimum number of heat exchanger units, and the minimum number of stream splittings needed for a given problem. The minimum heat exchanger area for the optimal network can then be obtained by adjusting the temperatures associate with the heat exchanger in the optimal network structure. The method is applied to the problems appeared in the literatures. The results show the reductions in the number of heat exchanger units for some problems.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1990년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국제학술편); KOEX, Seoul; 26-27 Oct. 1990
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• pp.1259-1264
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• 1990

During the past two decades, a lot of researches have been done on the synthesis of grassroot heat exchanger networks(HEN). However, few have been dedicated to retrofit of existing heat exchanger networks, which usually use more amount of utilities (i.e. steam and/or cooling water) than the minimum requirements. This excess gives motivation of trades-off between energy saving and rearranging investment. In this paper, an algorithmic-evolutionary synthesis procedure for retrofitting heat exchanger networks is proposed. It consists of two stages. First, after the amount of maximum energy recovery(MER) is computed, a grass-root network featuring minimum number of units(MNU) is synthesized. In this stage, a systematic procedure of synthesizing MNU networks is presented. It is based upon the concept of pinch, from which networks are synthesized in a logical way by the heuristics verified by the pinch technology. In the second stage, since an initial feasible network is synthesized based on the pre-analysis result of MER and must-matches, an assignment problem between new and existing units is solved to minimize total required additional areas. After the existing units are assigned, the network can be improved by switching some units. For this purpose, an improvement problem is formulated and solved to utilize the areas of existing units as much as possible. An example is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1986년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집; 한국과학기술대학, 충남; 17-18 Oct. 1986
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• pp.613-618
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• 1986

In this study a s/w system(HENSPIN) for the automatic synthesis of HEN(heat exchanger network) was developed based on Pinch Design Method. The synthesized HEN by HENSPIN are satisfying performance targets such as minimum utility usage with as few as possible capital items. The invented network is near optimal in capital and operating cost. It will be used as initial structure for evolution to the structure which has optimal operability.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.256-263
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• 1998

Among process synthesis problems, the heat exchanger network (HEN) has been subjected to the most concentrated effort because this kind of problems was well defined for solving it and 20-30% energy savings could be realized in the present chemical processes. In this paper, we use an evolutionary approach for HEN synthesis because this approach can overcome the local optimum and combine some heuristic rules. The basic evolutionary approach is composed of three parts, that is, initialization step, growth step and mutation step, as in the simulated annealing and genetic algorithm. This algorithm uses the ecological rule that a better cell will live and worse cell should decompose after repeated generations. With this basic concept, a new procedure is developed and a more efficient method is proposed to generate initial solutions. Its effectiveness is shown using test examples.

• 에너지공학
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.215-224
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• 1993

열교환망 합성은 에너지 회수와 절감 측면에서 상당히 중요한 문제이다. 최적 열교환망 합성 구조를 얻기 위해 multiple utility를 사용하여 유틸리티 소비를 최소화하는 방법을 제안하였으며, 공정 stream들간의 실제적인 합성은 수행하지 않고 목표값 설정에 중점을 두었다. 본 연구에서 제안한 이론을 근거로 하여 개발된 프로그램을 기존의 주정생산공정의 증류공정에 적용하여 좋은 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.515-524
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• 2022

In this study, the on-site hydrogen production process for refueling stations that were not energy-optimized was improved through exergy analysis and heat exchange network synthesis. Furthermore, the process was scaled up from 30 Nm3/h to 150 Nm3/h to improve hydrogen production capacity. Exergy analysis results show that exergy destruction in the SMR reactor and the heat exchanger accounts for 58.1 and 19.8%, respectively. Thus, the process is improved by modifying the heat exchange network to reduce the exergy loss in these units. As a result of the process simulation analysis, thermal and exergy efficiency is improved from 75.7 to 78.6% and 68.1 to 70.4%, respectively. In conclusion, it is expected to improve the process efficiency when installing on-site hydrogen refueling stations.

• 에너지공학
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.87-96
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• 1992

열교환기의 설치비 및 연간 비용에 주된 영향을 미치는 유틸리티의 소비와 열 교환 장치 수의 최소화를 목적으로 하여 경험법칙을 기초로 한 열교환망 합성 방법을 제안하였다. 본 연구에서 제안하는 열교환망 합성 알고리즘의 특징은 축소된 부문제 생성 기법과 부문제의 해를 구하는 방법에 있으며, 제안한 방법을 문헌에 실린 열교환망 합성 문제에 적용한 결과 이전의 결과보다 열교환장치 및 흐름의 분기등이 감소한 결과를 얻음으로써 본 방법의 우수성을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 플랜트 저널
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.24-30
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• 2016

이산화탄소 분리공정에 있어서 분리막 공정은 소형, 모듈성, 설치의 용이성, 작동의 유연성, 낮은 설치 비용 및 낮은 에너지 소비량 등의 장점들로 인하여 주목 받고 있다. 본 연구에서는 실험데이터와의 비교를 통해 교차흐름, 병류흐름, 향류흐름 3가지 모델의 정확도를 알아보았다. 실험에서 이용된 이산화탄소 분리공정을 가장 잘 나타내어주는 모델을 토대로 전산모사를 통하여 2단 막 분리 구조에서의 운전조건을 규명하고 분리막의 투과도 및 선택도가 분리성능에 미치는 영향을 알아보았다. 나아가 수증기 sweep을 이용하는 2단 막 분리 구조에서 열교환망 합성기법을 적용하여 열교환기 도입에 따른 소요 전력의 변화와 운전비용 절감효과를 살펴보았다.