Electricity, heating, and cooling are the three main components constituting the tripod of
energy consumption in residential, commercial, and public buildings all around the world …

There has been growing interest in developing Locally Integrated Energy Sectors (LIES) as
a Process (Heat) Integration approach for synergising the industrial thermal energy systems …

To meet utility demands some industrial units use onsite utility system. Traditionally, the
management of such type of industrial units is carried out in three sequential steps …

This paper provides an overview of software tools based on long experience and
applications in the area of process integration, modelling and optimisation. The first part …

In this paper, a detailed numerical analysis of a Combined Cooling, Heating and Power
system is presented, aiming at determining its optimal operating strategy in a real industrial …

A process system is designed for material transformations that produce certain functional
chemicals while usually consuming large amounts of energy. Materials in process systems …

Soils in mined areas in southeastern Spain are commonly characterized by extreme acidity,
high salinity, and metals. These present challenges to establish vegetation as a …

In this work, a novel integrated optimization approach that couples the production system
and the utility system of a refinery is proposed to explore the potential for increasing the …

The refining and petrochemical industries generally own process plants and utility systems.
Process plants are configured to finish the transformation and separation of materials, and …

Natural gas industrial parks are composed of raw natural gas refining plants, urea plants
and power plants. The processes of natural gas refining and utilization in industrial parks are …