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Nasibeh Pouransari

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Towards practical solutions for energy efficiency of large-scale industrial sites

Nasibeh Pouransari

This thesis investigates a set of advanced topics inspired from the heat integration and the pinch technology, all tied around the challenge of identifying energy savings in large-scale chemical industrial plants. In search for a general-purpose methodolog ...

EPFL2015

Heat recovery networks synthesis of large-scale industrial sites: Heat load distribution problem with virtual process subsystems

François Maréchal, Nasibeh Pouransari

This paper presents a targeting strategy to design a heat recovery network for an industrial plant by dividing the system into subsystems while considering the heat transfer opportunities between them. The methodology is based on a sequential approach. The ...

Elsevier2015

Targeting the Retrofit of industrial utility system and heat exchanger network

François Maréchal, Nasibeh Pouransari

A new methodology is herein suggested to target the retrofit of utility system and heat exchanger network (HEN) of large-scale chemical plants for energy eciency improvement purposes. The methodology is based on the optimal site energy conversion unit inte ...

2014

Role of total site integration in energy-target modification of distillation columns

François Maréchal, Nasibeh Pouransari

This paper investigates the energy efficiency improvement of an industrial site through thermodynamic analysis of distillation columns together with the total site integration (TSI). Unlike the existing methods which consider the distillation unit exclusiv ...

Elsevier2014

Targeting the retrofit of large-scale industrial plant with multi-objective optimization

François Maréchal, Nasibeh Pouransari

A methodology is proposed to target the retrofit of utility system and heat exchanger network (HEN) of large-scale chemical plants. The methodology is based on the Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) formulation for the optimal site utility integration ...

2014

This paper presents a systematic approach for the synthesis of the heat recovery network in total site using a Mixed Integer Linear Programming model. This model returns a near-to-optimal network configuration with minimum utility cost while allows to sele ...

Elsevier2014

This paper presents a targeting strategy to solve the heat load distribution (HLD) problem for large-scale plant by dividing the system into sub-systems while considering the heat transfer opportunities between them. The methodology is based on a sequentia ...

Aidic Servizi Srl2014

Multi-Layer Representation of Energy Requirement for Site Scale Integration

Nasibeh Pouransari

This study presents a methodology based on the process integration techniques and multiple representation of heating and cooling requirement concept to improve the energy efficiency of a large-scale chemical plant. Considering the difficulties of data gath ...

2013

This study aims to improve the energy efficiency of an industrial site by applying the thermodynamic analysis of distillation columns together with the total site integration (TSI). Several methods have been proposed in the literatures for the thermodynami ...

2013