Patent ID: 8417486
Filing Date: 2013-04-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system to synthesize a grass-roots heat exchanger network for a plurality of hot process streams to be cooled and a plurality of cold process streams to be heated and to identify optimal topology for future retrofit, the system comprising: a heat exchanger network synthesizing computer having a processor and memory in communication with the processor to store software and database records therein; at least one database stored in memory accessible to the energy modeling computer, comprising a plurality of sets of values each separately defining a potential range of values for a corresponding plurality of operational attributes for each of a plurality of hot resource streams, and a plurality of sets of values each separately defining a potential range of values for a corresponding plurality of operational attributes for each of a plurality of cold resource streams; heat exchanger network synthesizing program product stored in the memory of the heat exchanger network synthesizing computer to synthesize a grass-roots heat exchanger network for the plurality of hot process streams to be cooled and the plurality of cold process streams to be heated and to identify optimal topology for future retrofit, the program product including instructions that when executed by the heat exchanger network synthesizing computer cause the computer to perform the operations of: