
Design and Performance Optimization of Renewable Energy Systems
- 1st Edition - January 12, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Mamdouh Assad, Marc A Rosen
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 1 6 0 2 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 2 3 2 - 3
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Request a sales quoteDesign and Performance Optimization of Renewable Energy Systems provides an integrated discussion of issues relating to renewable energy performance design and optimization using advanced thermodynamic analysis with modern methods to configure major renewable energy plant configurations (solar, geothermal, wind, hydro, PV). Vectors of performance enhancement reviewed include thermodynamics, heat transfer, exergoeconomics and neural network techniques. Source technologies studied range across geothermal power plants, hydroelectric power, solar power towers, linear concentrating PV, parabolic trough solar collectors, grid-tied hybrid solar PV/Fuel cell for freshwater production, and wind energy systems. Finally, nanofluids in renewable energy systems are reviewed and discussed from the heat transfer enhancement perspective.
- Reviews the fundamentals of thermodynamics and heat transfer concepts to help engineers overcome design challenges for performance maximization
- Explores advanced design and operating principles for solar, geothermal and wind energy systems with diagrams and examples
- Combines detailed mathematical modeling with relevant computational analyses, focusing on novel techniques such as artificial neural network analyses
- Demonstrates how to maximize overall system performance by achieving synergies in equipment and component efficiency
Graduate and early career researchers in power engineering, particularly those working in thermodynamic optimization and on the design or development of renewable energy power plants. Power Engineers responsible for the operational optimization of renewable power plants
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Applications of renewable energy sources
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Solar energy
- 1.3 Wind energy
- 1.4 Geothermal energy
- 1.5 Hydro energy
- 1.6 Bioenergy
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 2. Renewable energy and energy sustainability
- Abstract
- Chapter outline
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Sustainability
- 2.3 Energy
- 2.4 Societal energy use and energy sustainability
- 2.5 Energy sustainability: interpretations, definitions, and needs
- 2.6 Selected measures relating to renewable energy for enhancing energy sustainability
- 2.7 Illustrative example: net-zero energy buildings
- 2.8 Closure
- References
- Chapter 3. Heat exchangers and nanofluids
- Abstract
- Chapter outline
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Heat exchanger classification
- 3.3 Effectiveness concept
- 3.4 Nanofluids
- 3.5 Applications of nanofluids in heat exchangers used in renewable energy technologies
- 3.6 Exergy analysis of nanofluidic heat exchangers
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgement
- References
- Chapter 4. Exergy analysis
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Exergy
- 4.3 Procedure for energy and exergy analyses
- 4.4 Conventional balances: mass, energy, and entropy
- 4.5 Exergy balance
- 4.6 Exergy consumption
- 4.7 Exergy of heat, work, and electricity interactions
- 4.8 Exergy of matter
- 4.9 Reference environment
- 4.10 Efficiencies and other measures of merit
- 4.11 Applications and implications
- 4.12 Illustrative examples
- 4.13 Closing remarks
- Nomenclature
- References
- Chapter 5. Solar power tower system
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Case study
- 5.3 Solar power tower direct steam system
- 5.4 Intelligent methods
- 5.5 Result and discussion
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Chapter 6. Parabolic trough solar collectors
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Parabolic trough solar collectors: a summary
- 6.3 Theoretical formulations
- 6.4 Parabolic trough solar collector analysis: a case study
- Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 7. Benefit-cost analysis and parametric optimization using Taguchi method for a solar water heater
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Economic analysis of solar water heating system
- 7.3 Results and discussion of economic analysis
- 7.4 Optimization of input parameters using Taguchi method
- 7.5 Signal-to-noise ratio
- 7.6 Data analysis and parameter optimization
- Conclusions
- Nomenclatures
- Appendix
- References
- Chapter 8. Fundamentals and performance of solar photovoltaic systems
- Abstract
- Chapter outline
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 The pn junction model for solar cells
- 8.3 Photovoltaic modules
- 8.4 Photovoltaic systems
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 9. Cooling systems for linear concentrating photovoltaic (LCPV) system
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Linear concentrating photovoltaic system
- 9.3 Cooling system
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Nomenclatures
- References
- Chapter 10. Geothermal power plants
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Dry steam power plant
- 10.3 Single-flash steam power plant
- 10.4 Double-flash steam power plant
- 10.5 Binary power plant (ORC)
- 10.6 Illustrative examples
- 10.7 Exercises
- References
- Chapter 11. Heat pumps and absorption chillers
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Types of heat pumps and their advantages
- 11.3 Geothermal heat pumps
- 11.4 Conventional heat pump for cooling
- 11.5 Illustrative examples
- 11.6 Absorption chillers
- 11.7 Closing remarks
- References
- Chapter 12. Hydropower
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Hydropower technology
- 12.3 Revaluation concepts for hydroelectric energy storage
- 12.4 Pumped storage
- 12.5 Modeling of micro hydroelectric power plants
- 12.6 Hydroelectric optimization problem
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Chapter 13. Energy and exergy analyses of wind turbines
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Energy analysis of wind turbines
- 13.3 Exergy analysis of wind turbines
- 13.4 Numerical example
- Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 14. Energy storage
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Electrochemical energy storage
- 14.3 Hydrogen energy storage
- 14.4 Mechanical energy storage
- 14.5 Electromagnetic energy storage
- 14.6 Fuel cells
- 14.7 Thermal energy storage
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Chapter 15. Use of nanofluids in solar energy systems
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 15.1 Nanofluid: a new generation of heat transfer fluids
- 15.2 Renewable energy versus nonrenewable energy
- 15.3 Solar energy
- 15.4 Simulation of nanofluid flow through solar absorbers
- 15.5 Solar stills
- 15.6 Concluding remarks
- References
- Chapter 16. Artificial Intelligence applications in renewable energy systems
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 16.1 What is Artificial Intelligence?
- 16.2 Artificial Intelligence and renewable energy
- 16.3 Artificial Intelligence examples for a photovoltaic solar cell: case study
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 12, 2021
- No. of pages (Paperback): 318
- No. of pages (eBook): 318
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128216026
- eBook ISBN: 9780128232323
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