| CDU | Crude Distillation Unit |
| LSTM | Long Short-Term Memory neural network |
| XGB | Extreme Gradient Boosting |
| NTU | Number of Transfer Units |
| ɛ-NTU | Effectiveness—Number of Transfer Units method |
| HEN | Heat Exchanger Network |
| CFD | Computational Fluid Dynamics |
| NN | Neural Network |
| RNN | Recurrent Neural Network |
| TEMA | Tubular Exchanger Manufacturers Association |
| STD | Standard Deviation |
| MSE | Mean Squared Error |