Energy Optimization in Process Systems and Fuel Cells

Stanislaw Sieniutycz, Jacek Jezowski

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9780081025581
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Thermodynamics
• Index: Technology & Engineering

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. - 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

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• 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 and practical energy systems
• 7: Numerical optimization in allocation, storage, and recovery of thermal energy and resources
• 8: Optimization and qualitative aspects of separation systems
• 9: Macroscopic rates in chemical reactors and chemical engines
• 10: Fuel cells and limiting performance of electrochemobiological systems
• 11: Optimizing systems with deactivation and regeneration of catalysts
• 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 principal symbols, third edition
• Index