Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe how managers from a network of organisations formed and operated as a team to work on a benchmarking project. The project had the dual purpose of enabling learning for the participants, and identifying leading practices in strategy deployment....

There is little tradition of regional studies in the field of industrial relations. Most of the existing work with a regional flavour is on comparative labour markets. The reason for the absence of structural or institutional studies is because of the obvious methodological problem of...

Purpose – Recent operations management research suggests that adopting and implementing the right practices are essential to attaining “world‐class” performance. The purpose of this paper is to report the leading operations management practices and the strategy deployment framework that...

Heat transfer intensification for shell and tube heat exchangers is an efficient technique to increase energy saving when retrofitting heat exchanger networks (HENs). Such intensification has been widely studied in the process industry in recent years from the point of view of individual heat...

A large amount of low grade energy is often wasted without heat recovery in the process industry. Over-the-fence heat integration for district heating (DH) can be suggested to utilize this waste heat and therefore alleviate the carbon footprint of the integrated energy system. The economic...

Finding cost effective retrofits for heat exchanger networks remains a challenge. Whilst it is often straightforward to find retrofit changes to an existing network that can improve energy performance, in practice such changes are most often uneconomic. This paper will present an approach to...

Improving energy recovery with retrofitting heat exchanger network has been widely studied in academic and industrial communities. Distinct from most of existing works on HEN retrofit neglecting exchanger geometry, this paper presents a novel optimization method for dealing with the main...

An optimisation model for the composition of mixed working fluids for (Organic Rankine Cycles) ORCs and Kalina cycles has been developed. The temperatures investigated were 100 °C–250 °C for the heat source and 30 °C for the heat sink. The optimisation method of the composition was...

Recent developments on sulphur specifications in middle distillate fuels are exerting a higher demand on refinery hydrogen systems. Previous methodologies on hydrogen network optimisation have been developed mainly based on the assumption of fixed hydroprocessing performance with constant...