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Energy Optimization in Process Systems and Fuel Cells

  • 3rd Edition - May 16, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Stanislaw Sieniutycz, Jacek Jezowski
  • Language: English

Energy Optimization in Process Systems and Fuel Cells, Third Edition covers the optimization and integration of energy systems, with a particular focus on fuel cell technolog… Read more

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Description

Energy Optimization in Process Systems and Fuel Cells, Third 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 the 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 third edition contains substantial revisions and modifications, with new material on catalytic reactors, sorption systems, sorbent or catalyst regenerators, dryers, and more.

Key features

  • Presents a unified approach to the optimization and integration of energy systems
  • Includes a large number of examples treating dynamical systems
  • Provides exposition showing the power of thermodynamics
  • Contains a large number of maximum power analyses and their extensions

Readership

Graduate students and researchers in chemical, mechanical, materials and environmental engineering, as well as those engaged in system theory, operation research, chemistry, applied physics, applied mathematics

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 system

11. Systems theory in thermal and chemical engineering. Heat integration within process integration

12. Maximum heat recovery and its consequences for process system design

13. Targeting and supertargeting in heat exchanger network (HEN) design

14. Minimum utility cost (MUC) target by optimization approaches

15. Minimum number of units (MNU) and minimum total surface area (MTA) targets

16. Simultaneous HEN targeting for total annual cost

17. Heat exchanger network synthesis

18. Heat exchanger network retrofit

19. Approaches to water network design

Product details

  • Edition: 3
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 16, 2018
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Stanislaw Sieniutycz

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Chemical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering, Poland

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Jacek Jezowski

Affiliations and expertise
Deceased, Rzeszów University of Technology, Poland

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