ABSTRACT
Heat exchangers are used extensively in the process and allied industries and thus are very important during design and operation. The most commonly used type of heat exchanger is the shell-and-tube heat exchanger, the optimal design of which is the main objective of this chapter. The secondary objective is performance evaluation of different non-traditional optimization techniques such as Genetic Algorithms (GA) and Differential Evolution (DE) for the optimal design of shell-and-tube heat exchangers.
