Publications by Nasibeh Pouransari

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

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

Energy Integration of Large-Scale Industrial Sites with Target-Compatible Sub-System Division Strategy

François Maréchal, Nasibeh Pouransari

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

Heat exchanger network design of large-scale industrial site with layout inspired constraints

François Maréchal, Nasibeh Pouransari

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

Site-scale process integration and utility optimization with multiple representations of heating and cooling requirements: Application to an existing chemical plant

François Maréchal, 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

Energy efficiency improvement by applying thermodynamic optimization of distillation columns in the site scale integration

François Maréchal, Nasibeh Pouransari

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