An Improved Chaotic Ant Swarm Algorithm for Simultaneous Synthesis of Heat Exchanger Network

Abstract

Abstract: An improved chaotic ant swarm algorithm, which synthesizes simultaneously heat exchanger network well, is proposed. Organization variables update strategy and novel dynamic neighborhood topology are introduced to enhance global search ability and local search ability of the algorithm. Two strategies of integer variables are proposed to optimize integer variables represented by heat exchangers. Two heat exchanger network problems with different scale are selected to test the algorithm. Obtained solutions are better than solutions published in literature, which indicates robustness and effectiveness of the algorithm.

Key words: heat exchanger network synthesis, chaotic ant swarm algorithm, organization variables update, integer variables optimization

CLC Number:

TK124

ZHANG Chunwei, CUI Guomin, CHEN Shang. An Improved Chaotic Ant Swarm Algorithm for Simultaneous Synthesis of Heat Exchanger Network[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS, 2017, 34(2): 193-204.

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