TY - JOUR
T1 - Judicious generation of alternative water network designs with manual evolution strategy
AU - Li, Bao Hong
AU - Chang, Chuei Tin
N1 - Funding Information:
Financial support provided by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 20806015 is gratefully acknowledged. The authors would like to express our gratitude to the editor and anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions.
PY - 2012/9
Y1 - 2012/9
N2 - This study is aimed to judiciously generate the desired alternative configurations of a given single-contaminant water-using system under the constraints of minimum freshwater usage, minimum match number and minimum total throughput. A generalized source-shift procedure is proposed for this purpose, which can be applied manually by evolution from a preliminary network which requires minimum freshwater usage. Systematic implementation guidelines are also provided to perform the evolution steps. In addition, the minimum interconnection number can be estimated in advance and the total number of promising alternative solutions can also be determined a priori. Six examples are presented in this paper to demonstrate the effectiveness and benefits of applying our method.
AB - This study is aimed to judiciously generate the desired alternative configurations of a given single-contaminant water-using system under the constraints of minimum freshwater usage, minimum match number and minimum total throughput. A generalized source-shift procedure is proposed for this purpose, which can be applied manually by evolution from a preliminary network which requires minimum freshwater usage. Systematic implementation guidelines are also provided to perform the evolution steps. In addition, the minimum interconnection number can be estimated in advance and the total number of promising alternative solutions can also be determined a priori. Six examples are presented in this paper to demonstrate the effectiveness and benefits of applying our method.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cherd.2011.12.011
DO - 10.1016/j.cherd.2011.12.011
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84865553642
SN - 0263-8762
VL - 90
SP - 1245
EP - 1261
JO - Chemical Engineering Research and Design
JF - Chemical Engineering Research and Design
IS - 9
ER -