Energy Optimization in Process Systems and Fuel Cells

✍ Scribed by Stanislaw Sieniutycz and Jacek Jezowski (Auth.)

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 800
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

• New information on fuel cell theory, combined with the theory of flow energy systems, broadens the scope and usefulness of the book
• Discusses engineering applications including power generation, resource upgrading, radiation conversion, and chemical transformation in static and dynamic systems
• Contains practical applications of optimization methods that help solve the problems of power maximization and optimal use of energy and resources in chemical, mechanical, and environmental engineering

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
Preface, Pages xi-xvii
Acknowledgments, Page xix
1 - Brief review of static optimization methods, Pages 1-43
2 - Dynamic optimization problems, Pages 45-84
3 - Energy limits for thermal engines and heat pumps at steady states, Pages 85-125
4 - Hamiltonian optimization of imperfect cascades, Pages 127-165
5 - Maximum power from solar energy, Pages 167-213
6 - Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman theory of energy systems, Pages 215-236
7 - Numerical optimization in allocation, storage and recovery of thermal energy and resources, Pages 237-269
8 - Optimal control of separation processes, Pages 271-320
9 - Optimal decisions for chemical reactors, Pages 321-371
10 - Fuel cells and limiting performance of electrochemobiological systems, Pages 373-428
11 - Systems theory in thermal and chemical engineering, Pages 429-464
12 - Heat integration within process integration, Pages 465-474
13 - Maximum heat recovery and its consequences for process system design, Pages 475-497
14 - Targeting and supertargeting in heat exchanger network design, Pages 499-505
15 - Minimum utility cost (MUC) target by optimization approaches, Pages 507-531
16 - Minimum number of units (MNU) and minimum total surface area (MTA) targets, Pages 533-570
17 - Simultaneous HEN targeting for total annual cost, Pages 571-583
18 - Heat exchanger network synthesis, Pages 585-620
19 - Heat exchanger network retrofit, Pages 621-650
20 - Approaches to water network design, Pages 651-695
Reference, Pages 697-771
Glossary, Pages 773-782
Index, Pages 783-800