<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="static/style.xsl"?><OAI-PMH xmlns="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/OAI-PMH.xsd"><responseDate>2026-09-19T16:25:07Z</responseDate><request verb="GetRecord" identifier="oai:digital.library.adelaide.edu.au:2440/19833" metadataPrefix="dim">https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/server/oai/request</request><GetRecord><record><header><identifier>oai:digital.library.adelaide.edu.au:2440/19833</identifier><datestamp>2015-12-11T04:56:17Z</datestamp><setSpec>com_2440_14759</setSpec><setSpec>col_2440_14760</setSpec></header><metadata><dim:dim xmlns:dim="http://www.dspace.org/xmlns/dspace/dim" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:doc="http://www.lyncode.com/xoai" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.dspace.org/xmlns/dspace/dim http://www.dspace.org/schema/dim.xsd">
   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="contributor" qualifier="author" lang="en">Ren, Yikai</dim:field>
   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="contributor" qualifier="school" lang="en">Dept. of Chemical Engineering</dim:field>
   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="date" qualifier="issued" lang="en">2000</dim:field>
   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="identifier" qualifier="uri">http://hdl.handle.net/2440/19833</dim:field>
   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="description" lang="en">Last leaf includes a list of publications co-authored by the author during the preparation of this thesis.</dim:field>
   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="description" lang="en">Includes bibliographical references (leaves 179-187).</dim:field>
   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="description" lang="en">xiv, 188 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.</dim:field>
   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="description" qualifier="abstract" lang="en">A novel and reliable method for heat exchanger network synthesis is proposed.The prime objective has been the elimination or reduction of drawbacks inherent in both evolutionary methods and mathematical programming methods while retaining the adevantages of both methods.</dim:field>
   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="description" qualifier="dissertation" lang="en">Thesis (Ph.D.)--Adelaide University, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 2001</dim:field>
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   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="subject" qualifier="lcsh" lang="en">Heat exchangers Design and construction.</dim:field>
   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="subject" qualifier="lcsh" lang="en">Mathematical optimization.</dim:field>
   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="subject" qualifier="lcsh" lang="en">Thermodynamics.</dim:field>
   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="title" lang="en">A recursive design method for heat exchanger networks / by Yikai Ren.</dim:field>
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   <dim:field mdschema="dc" element="provenance" lang="en">This electronic version is made publicly available by the University of Adelaide in accordance with its open access policy for student theses. Copyright in this thesis remains with the author. This thesis may incorporate third party material which has been used by the author pursuant to Fair Dealing exception. If you are the author of this thesis and do not wish it to be made publicly available or If you are the owner of any included third party copyright material you wish to be removed from this electronic version, please complete the take down form located at: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/legals.</dim:field>open.access</dim:dim></metadata></record></GetRecord></OAI-PMH>