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Computational complexity of heat exchanger network synthesis

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It is proved that HENS is N P -hard, thus refuting the possibility for the existence of a computationally efficient (polynomial) exact solution algorithm for this problem and facilitating the computational complexity analysis of more complex HENS problems and providing new insights to structural properties of the problem.
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This article is published in Computers & Chemical Engineering.The article was published on 2001-09-15. It has received 133 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Computational problem & Function problem.

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A Critical Review and Annotated Bibliography for Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis in the 20th Century

TL;DR: A critical review of the literature on heat-exchanger network synthesis, the most commonly studied problem in process synthesis, and several classification schemes of this body of work based on a number of modeling and algorithmic criteria are presented.
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Solving heat exchanger network synthesis problems with Tabu Search

TL;DR: TS is shown to locate the global optima with a high probability and low computation times, demonstrating the algorithm’s potential for solving a variety of other mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems.
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Optimal synthesis of heat exchanger networks involving isothermal process streams

TL;DR: A new MINLP model for heat exchanger network synthesis that includes streams with phase change is proposed, which provides the network structure that minimizes the total yearly cost.
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Heat exchanger network synthesis using a stagewise superstructure with non-isothermal mixing

TL;DR: A mixed-integer nonlinear programming formulation and a solution strategy to incorporate non-isothermal mixing in HENS using an existing modification of the stagewise superstructure is proposed and it is shown that including the stage bypass variables and constraints improves solution quality and efficiency.
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A novel approach for synthesis of cost-optimal heat exchanger networks

TL;DR: The results of this study show that the new approach to synthesis of cost-optimal heat exchanger networks is able to find more economical networks than those generated by other methods.
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Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness

TL;DR: The second edition of a quarterly column as discussed by the authors provides a continuing update to the list of problems (NP-complete and harder) presented by M. R. Garey and myself in our book "Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness,” W. H. Freeman & Co., San Francisco, 1979.
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TL;DR: This clearly written, mathematically rigorous text includes a novel algorithmic exposition of the simplex method and also discusses the Soviet ellipsoid algorithm for linear programming; efficient algorithms for network flow, matching, spanning trees, and matroids; the theory of NP-complete problems; approximation algorithms, local search heuristics for NPcomplete problems, more.
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