Abstract—Water management has become a very vital issue
due to stringent environmental regulations and rising cost of
water resources. Pinch analysis provides a conceptual approach
for water network synthesis. Targeting is the first stage in most
pinch analysis techniques to provide the baseline for detailed
water network design. Although Water Cascade Analysis and
Material Recovery Pinch Diagram methods have been
developed to handle diverse water network problems,
Composite Table Algorithm (CTA) is another water pinch
targeting tool with its unique combination of both numerical
and graphical characteristics. CTA was originally developed for
fixed flow rate problems. In this work, the applicability of CTA
for various water network problems such as fixed load, mixed
fixed load and fixed flow rate, multiple pinch, and threshold
problem is discussed. To facilitate, the approach has been
programed in MATLAB and results obtained are validated by
comparing with literature.
Index Terms—Pinch analysis, pure utility, targeting, water
minimization
The authors are with the Department of Chemical Engineering, Curtin
University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845 (e-mail:
h.yao@curtin.edu.au).
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Cite:R. Parand, H. M. Yao, M. O. Tadé, and V. Pareek, "Composite Table Algorithm - A Powerful Hybrid Pinch
Targeting Method for Various Problems in Water
Integration," International Journal of Chemical Engineering and Applications vol. 4, no. 4 pp. 224-228, 2013.
