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Energy optimization in process systems and fuel cells /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam, Netherlands :
Elsevier,
2018.
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| Edición: | Third edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Energy Optimizationin Process Systemsand Fuel Cells; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Brief review of static optimization methods; 1.1. Introduction: Significance of mathematical model; 1.2. Unconstrained problems; 1.3. Equality constraints and Lagrange multipliers; 1.4. Methods of mathematical programming; 1.5. Iterative search methods; 1.6. On some stochastic optimization techniques; 1.6.1. Introduction; 1.6.2. Adaptive random search optimization; 1.6.3. Genetic algorithms; 1.6.4. Simulating annealing; Acceptance criterion; Initial simplex generation
- 2.5.1. Continuous optimization problem2.5.2. Optimal performance functions and related HJB equations; 2.5.3. Optimal performance in terms of the forward DP algorithm; 2.5.4. Link with gauged integrals of performance; 2.5.5. Diversity of equivalent formulations; 2.5.6. Passage to the Hamilton-Jacobi equation; 2.6. Continuous maximum principle; 2.7. Calculus of variations; 2.8. Viscosity solutions and nonsmooth analyzes; 2.9. Stochastic control and stochastic maximum principle; Chapter 3: Energy limits for thermal engines and heat pumps at steady states
- 3.1. Introduction: Role of optimization in determining thermodynamic limits3.2. Classical problem of thermal engine driven by heat flux; 3.2.1. Maximum power in thermal engines; 3.2.2. Lagrange multipliers and endoreversible system; 3.2.3. Analysis of imperfect units in terms of efficiency control; 3.2.4. Introducing Carnot temperature controls; 3.2.5. Maximum power in terms of both Carnot temperatures; 3.2.6. Entropy production and flux-dependent efficiencies; 3.3. Towards work limits in sequential systems; 3.4. Energy utilization and heat-pumps; 3.5. Thermal separation processes
- 3.6. Steady chemical, electrochemical and other systems3.7. Limits in living systems; 3.8. Final remarks; Chapter 4: Hamiltonian optimization of imperfect cascades; 4.1. Basic properties of irreversible cascade operations with a work flux; 4.2. Description of imperfect units in terms of Carnot temperature control; 4.3. Single-stage formulae in a model of cascade operation; 4.4. Work optimization in cascade by discrete maximum principle; 4.5. Example; 4.6. Continuous imperfect system with two finite reservoirs; 4.7. Final remarks; Chapter 5: Maximum power from solar energy