SCOPES – Computer Aided Process Engineering applied to energy, water, and waste reduction during process design and operation ‒ SCI-STI-FM ‐ EPFL

Source: Swiss National Fund (SNF)

Partners: University of Maribor

This project addresses the development of computer aided process system engineering methodologies applied to energy, water, and waste reduction during the process design and operation. In particular, it addresses the synthesis and optimization of the combined network consisting of water network, wastewater treatment network and heat exchanger network in order to systematically explore all possible interconnections between as well as within networks and propose optimal solutions of network designs with minimum freshwater and hot and cold utility consumption as well as minimum wastewater generation.

As several input data are subjected to fluctuations and uncertainty, we will incorporate the approaches for considering uncertainty during the synthesis and design of combined networks, thus generating flexible and operable process solutions. The relations between the economic, operational and environmental efficiencies of the proposed designs will be taken into account in order to improve the competitiveness and sustainability of designs. The tools for multi-objective optimization will be developed for generating the sets of compromise solutions regarding the profitability and environmental influences of the combined networks.

SCOPES

E. Ahmetović, N. Ibrić, Z. Kravanja, and I. E. Grossmann, “Water and energy integration: A comprehensive literature review of non-isothermal water network synthesis,” Computers & Chemical Engineering, vol. 82, pp. 144–171, Nov. 2015.

Contact: Maziar Kermani

Publications list:

Thermal profile construction for energy-intensive industrial sectors

I. D. Kantor; A. S. Wallerand; M. Kermani; H. E. Bütün; A. Santecchia et al.

2018. 31st International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems, Guimaraes, Portugal, June 17-22, 2018.

Thermal profile construction for energy-intensive industrial sectors

Synthesis of Heat-Integrated Water Allocation Networks: A Meta-Analysis of Solution Strategies and Network Features

Generic superstructure synthesis of organic Rankine cycles for waste heat recovery in industrial processes

A Hybrid Methodology for Combined Interplant Heat, Water, and Power Integration

Synthesis of single and interplant non-isothermal water networks

Simultaneous optimisation of Multiple-Effect Evaporation Systems and Heat Exchanger Network

A novel MILP approach for simultaneous optimization of water and energy: Application to a Canadian softwood Kraft pulping mill

Simultaneous synthesis of non-isothermal water networks integrated with process streams

Combined water and energy integration in industrial processes with restricted connections

Analysis, Synthesis and Optimization of Multiple-Effect Evaporation Systems using Mathematical Programming

Synthesis of non-isothermal water networks including process hot and cold streams

Synthesis of non‒isothermal interplant water networks

Applications of Pinch Analysis and Mathematical Programming Methods for Synthesizing Non-Isothermal Water Networks

OsmoseLua – An Integrated Approach to Energy Systems Integration with LCIA and GIS

An Improved Linear Programming Approach for Simultaneous Optimization of Water and Energy

The SP2 SCOPES Project on Speech Prosody