Energy Optimization in Process Systems and Fuel Cells [Paperback]

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

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 system