This paper presents an extension of our recent work, in which we addressed

the simultaneous synthesis of heat-integrated water networks. The novelty

and goal of this work is the development of an extended superstructure and
simultaneous optimization model of heat-integrated water networks now
involving process-to-process streams, and other streams within the overall
network, for heat integration. Those heat-integration opportunities have
not yet been fully taken into account in most existing models of heat-
integrated water networks. In this study, we presented two strategies for
heat integration of process-to-process streams. The first one includes the
placement of heat exchangers on each hot and cold process-to-process
stream. The second allows for the cooling and splitting of hot streams, and
heating and splitting of cold streams. This extended model was formulated
as a non-convex mixed-integer non-linear programming (MINLP) problem.
The objective was to minimize the total annual network cost. Two examples
with single and multiple contaminants are used in order to demonstrate
that involving process-to-process streams for heat integration, novel and
improved solutions can be obtained compared to those reported in the
literature.