Energy Optimization in Process Systems and Fuel Cells / Edition 2

by Stanislaw Sieniutycz, Jacek Jezowski

Overview

Energy Optimization in Process Systems and Fuel Cells, Second Edition covers the optimization and integration of energy systems, with a particular focus on fuel cell technology. With rising energy prices, imminent energy shortages, and increasing environmental impacts of energy production, energy optimization and systems integration is critically important. The book applies thermodynamics, kinetics and economics to study the effect of equipment size, environmental parameters, and economic factors on optimal power production and heat integration. Author Stanislaw Sieniutycz, highly recognized for his expertise and teaching, shows how costs can be substantially reduced, particularly in utilities common in the chemical industry.

This second edition contains substantial revisions, with particular focus on the rapid progress in the field of fuel cells, related energy theory, and recent advances in the optimization and control of fuel cell systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780080982212
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	02/12/2013
Edition description:	2nd Revised ed.
Pages:	818
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 2.10(d)

About the Author

Stanislaw Sieniutycz is a former member of the Committee of Engineering at the Polish Academy of Sciences and also a professor of chemical engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. His research focuses on problems of chemical, environmental, ecological, and biomechanical engineering with emphasis on analysis, control, and optimization of these systems. He is a former member of the Editorial Board of Open System and Information Dynamics and an honorary editor of the Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics. He has served as an associate editor of Advances in Thermodynamics Series and Energy & Conversion Management. He has published 12 books, 250 articles, and 152 conference papers. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Budapest, University of Bern, University of San Diego, University of Delaware, and University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

1. Brief review of static optimization methods 2. Dynamic optimization problems 3. Energy limits for thermal engines and heat pumps at steady states 4. Hamiltonian optimization of imperfect cascades 5. Maximum power from solar energy 6. Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman theory of energy systems 7. Numerical optimization in allocation, storage and recovery of thermal energy and resources 8. Optimal control of separation processes 9. Optimal decisions for chemical reactors 10. Fuel cells and limiting performance of electro-chemo-biological systems 11. Systems theory in thermal and chemical engineering 12. Heat integration within process integration 13. Maximum heat recovery and its consequences for process system design 14. Targeting and supertargeting in heat exchanger network design 15. Minimum utility cost (MUC) target by optimization approaches 16. Minimum number of units (MNU) and minimum total surface area (MTA) targets 17. Simultaneous HEN targeting for total annual cost 18. Heat exchanger network synthesis 19. Heat exchanger network retrofit 20. Approaches to water network design

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Fully revised edition covering the optimization and integration of energy systems, with a particular focus on fuel cell technology

Editorial Reviews

"Polish chemical and process engineers Seinuitycz and Jezowski explain how to simulate and optimize various energy processes by applying optimization approaches found in second law analysis, finite time thermodynamics, entropy generation minimization, exergo-economics, and system engineering…The book can be used as a core or supplemental textbook in a range of science and engineering courses on energy at the graduate or undergraduate level." —Reference & Research Book News, October 2013

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