Application of global optimization strategies to refinery hydrogen network

In this paper, a new method is presented in optimization of hydrogen network. The mixed integer non-linear programming (MINLP) and non-linear programming (NLP) problems have been solved with two methods, simultaneously. The linearization technique for non-linear programming models which proposed by McCormick (1976) and also a new method proposed by Faria and Bagajewicz (2011) have been used to solve these problems. Application of this new method is presented in global optimization of MINLP/NLP, and hydrogen network problem.