A Comparison Study For Synthesis Of Hircns Graphically And...

A comparison study for Synthesis of HIRCNs Graphically and Mathematically Abstract Heat and mass, such as water and solvents, are two key utilities in process industry. Simultaneous reduction of both utilities can reduce plant capital as well as operating costs. Though there are mathematical modeling techniques that can produce global optimal solutions, graphical methods are often preferred to provide insights through visualization.This paper studies two revised heat integrated resource conservation networks (HIRCN) synthesis methods, the graphical and the mathematical method, comparing between them by applying both on a case study which involves mass transfer-based water-using operation derived from literature will be solved to demonstrate the features of the two methods and differentiate between them showing advantages and disadvantages of both. Introduction: Huge amount of energy and fresh resources (i.e. water, chemicals, solvents) are consumed by process industries to achieve the desired product specifications.There is a strong current drive to an efficient use of these resources amongst the few reasons for this drive include environmental sustainability, stringent emission legislation as well as the increase of fresh resources and waste treatment costs. Thus, resource conservation activities have become the center of attention as compared to conventional end-of-pipe waste treatment system. Process integration has been commonly used as an effective tool for