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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Sieniutycz, Stanislaw (Autor), Jeżowski, Jacek (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Elsevier Science, 2013.
Edición:Second edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.