Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the effects of goal orientation on understanding the dynamics of stocks and flows (SF). Design/methodology/approach: The authors use the well-established department store task as the experimental task to evaluate people’s understanding of SF and...

A new method based on the heat duty–time (Q–t) diagram is proposed for heat integration of heat exchanger networks featuring batch streams. Using the Q–t diagram method, the energy targets and the structure of the initial heat exchanger network can be easily obtained. The method can be...

On the grand composite curve of a heat exchange network, a heat pocket exists when a local heat source above the pinch point or a local heat sink below the pinch point appears. In this paper, heat recovery in the heat pocket is presented by combining the pinch technology and exergy analysis....