Energy Optimization in Process Systems and Fuel Cells
By- Stanislaw Sieniutycz, Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering, Poland
- Jacek Jezowski, Deceased. Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland
Energy optimization and integration of energy systems is becoming more important in todays 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 increasing interest due to their high efficiency and low pollution potential.
This book covers the optimization and integration of energy systems. The author is a world-renowned specialist with extensive didactic experience. His systematic approach uses thermodynamics, kinetics and economics to study the effect of equipment size, environmental parameters and economic factors on optimal power production and heat integration. He shows that reduction of costs can be achieved, in particular costs of utilities common in the chemical industry.
The 2e contains substantial revisions and modifications and focuses on the rapid progress in the field of fuel cells and discusses the latest developments in the energy theory on fuel cells and recent findings in the optimization and optical control of fuel cell systems.
Audience
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
Hardbound, 810 Pages
Published: March 2013
Imprint: Elsevier
ISBN: 978-0-08-098221-2
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
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
References
Glossary of symbols
Index
