MUMBAI, India, Aug. 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641095539 A) filed by Nahaprasaath Ganesan Indira on August 06, 2026, for Ant Colony-Based Process Scheduling And Heat Recovery Optimization In Thermochemical Hydrogen Plants.
Inventor includes Nahaprasaath Ganesan Indira.
The application for the patent was published on August 14, 2026, under issue no. 33/2026.
Abstract: An ant colony-based system and method for joint optimization of process scheduling and heat recovery in thermochemical hydrogen plants is disclosed. A plant model represents the operations of a thermochemical water-splitting cycle with their durations, temperatures, endothermic or exothermic duties, precedence relations, streams, a heat exchanger network, and thermal storage. A formulation module poses a coupled problem in which the schedule and the heat allocation are jointly determined, recognizing that heat released by one operation is recoverable to supply another only if they overlap in time or are bridged by storage, a coupling the sequential prior art severs. An ant colony optimization engine represents the coupled problem as a construction graph traversed by artificial ants that incrementally build a schedule and its coupled heat-recovery configuration together, guided by pheromone and by heuristic information measuring heat-recovery quantity and quality, yielding feasible near- optimal solutions. Warm-started re-optimization from retained pheromone tracks a fluctuating solar source in near real time, and a control interface applies the schedule and heat allocation, maximizing efficiency and reducing the cost of clean hydrogen.
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