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Beyond the Basics: Multi-Objective Optimization for Design of Heat Exchangers Webinar

May 21, 2025
9:30 AM CDT (UTC -05:00)
Targeted for audience in Europe and Asia

Description

Commercial heat exchangers in the process industries are designed according to standards from entities such as TEMA or API. The designer’s goal is to maximize the heat transfer coefficient and minimize cost, area, and pressure drop. However, these objectives often conflict. For example, changing a geometric design parameter such as tube diameter may simultaneously cause a favorable change in one performance aspect and an unfavorable change in another. Heat exchanger design thus falls in the domain of multi-objective optimization (MOO).

In this webinar, we review what MOO is, how it differs from single-objective optimization, and how and why a heat exchanger design problem is a MOO problem. We illustrate how to solve the problem using readily available tools in Python^®. A heat exchanger designer may have to change many parameters (often one at a time) to identify a single “best” design. This webinar illuminates how applying MOO in an automated process may allow the designer to choose among a class of best designs instead of derivig only one.

Join this webinar to learn more.

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes

Registration deadline: May 16, 2025 (11:59 PM US Central Time)

Beyond the Basics: Multi-Objective Optimization for Design of Heat Exchangers Webinar

July 02, 2025
9:30 PM CDT (UTC -05:00)
Targeted for audience in Europe and Asia

Description

Session targeted for audience in Asia (July 03, 2025 at 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM India Standard Time, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM China Standard Time, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Japan Standard Time).

Commercial heat exchangers in the process industries are designed according to standards from entities such as TEMA or API. The designer’s goal is to maximize the heat transfer coefficient and minimize cost, area, and pressure drop. However, these objectives often conflict. For example, changing a geometric design parameter such as tube diameter may simultaneously cause a favorable change in one performance aspect and an unfavorable change in another. Heat exchanger design thus falls in the domain of multi-objective optimization (MOO).

In this webinar, we review what MOO is, how it differs from single-objective optimization, and how and why a heat exchanger design problem is a MOO problem. We illustrate how to solve the problem using readily available tools in Python^®. A heat exchanger designer may have to change many parameters (often one at a time) to identify a single “best” design. This webinar illuminates how applying MOO in an automated process may allow the designer to choose among a class of best designs instead of derivig only one.

Join this webinar to learn more.

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes

Registration deadline: June 27, 2025 (11:59 PM US Central Time)

2025 HTRI Global Conference & Annual Meeting of Stockholders

September 22 - 25, 2025

Description

Denver, Colorado | September 22 - 25, 2025
Registration opening in May 2025

Four Seasons Hotel Denver
Denver, Colorado, USA

Pre-conference Meetings: Saturday, September 20 – Sunday, September 21, 2025
General Sessions: Monday, September 22 – Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Training: Wednesday, September 24 – Thursday, September 25, 2025

Located in the heart of the Mile High City, Four Seasons Hotel Denver is an urban retreat just minutes from the restaurants and boutiques of historic Larimer Square. The hotel is nestled in the city’s theater district, walking distance to the art complex, and just a few blocks away from three major sports arenas.