Refinery water network

Consider a smaller refinery water network problem by ignoring some processes in Table 12.1, and perform design, retrofitting and revamping via multi-objective optimization for two objectives, namely, fresh water consumption and total flow through the regeneration units, as in this chapter. 

M. Bagajewicz, 2000, A review of recent design procedures for water networks in refineries and process plants, Computers and Chemical Engineering, 24, 2093-2113. 

Design, Retrofit and Revamp of Industria Water Networks 353 Table 12.1 Operating and limiting data for water network in a petroleum refinery. 

Figure 12.2 Simultaneous minimization of fresh water flowrate and total flow through regeneration units (concentration of each contaminant in waste water < 400 ppm), for design of the water network in a petroleum refinery.

Figure 12.8 Simultaneous minimization of fresh water flow rate and total flow rate through regeneration units, for water network design/revamping for 50% and 100% increase in hydrocarbon load in the refinery processes considered.

Sharma, S. and Rangaiah, G.P. (2014) Multi-objective Optimization of Heat Integrated Water Networks in Petroleum Refineries. Proceedings of the 24th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 1531-1536. 

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