Hon Huin Chin

TL;DR: The analysis clearly shows the need to focus future research and development efforts on increasing model fidelity and practicality, addressing operability issues, and most importantly – development of flexible and efficient tools for communicating optimisation results to industrial practitioners and plant managers who would implement the process retrofit recommendations.

TL;DR: An overview of cleaner production achievements and selection of relevant recent work dealing with optimisation tools and process design as published in the Special Issue on Process Integration and Intensification for Sustainable Evolution via Resource and Emission Reduction is presented.

TL;DR: A two-stage method for HEN retrofit that combines the strengths of the MILP and PSO methods, offering convenient interfaces for user interaction and results interpretation is developed.

TL;DR: An alternative optimization tool, process graph (P-graph) framework is utilized to solve for water and energy integration, a graph-theoretic approach to process synthesis, for which the developed algorithms can reduce the complexity of the mathematical programming algorithms efficiently.

TL;DR: The method provides insights into the problem while providing the minimum resource target, and is demonstrated by several industrial case studies encompassing problems with a fresh and impure resource.