Energy optimization in process systems and fuel cells

Energy optimization and integration of energy systems is becoming more important in today's world, which is struggling with high energy prices, imminent energy shortages, and global pollution. Therefore, there is a strong need for sustainable energy supplies such as fuel cells that enjoy increa...

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Main Author: Sieniutycz, Stanislaw,
Other Authors: Jeżowski, Jacek,, ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Oxford : Elsevier Science, 2013.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xix, 800 pages)
Edition: Second edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Brief review of static optimization methods
  • Dynamic optimization problems
  • Energy limits for thermal engines and heat pumps at steady states
  • Hamiltonian optimization of imperfect cascades
  • Maximum power from solar energy
  • Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman theory of energy systems
  • Numerical optimization in allocation, storage and recovery of thermal energy and resources
  • Optimal control of separation processes
  • Optimal decisions for chemical reactors
  • Fuel cells and limiting performance of electrochemobiological systems
  • Systems theory in thermal and chemical engineering
  • Heat integration within process integration
  • Maximum heat recovery and its consequences for process system design
  • Targeting and supertargeting in heat exchanger network design
  • Minimum utility cost (MUC) target by optimization approaches
  • Minimum number of units (MNU) and minimum total surface area (MTA) targets
  • Simultaneous HEN targeting for total annual cost
  • Heat exchanger network synthesis
  • Heat exchanger network retrofit
  • Approaches to water network design.