Energy optimization in process systems and fuel cells / by Stanislaw Sieniutycz, Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering, Warsaw, Poland, Jacek Jezowski, Rzeszow University of Technology, Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, Rzeszow, Poland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sieniutycz, Stanislaw.

Jeżowski, Jacek, author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemical process control.

Mathematical optimization.

Fuel cells.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 800 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Energy Optimization in Process Systems and Fuel Cells, Second 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 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 re

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Brief review of static optimization methods; 1.1 Introduction: Significance of Mathematical Models; 1.2 Unconstrained Problems; 1.3 Equality Constraints and Lagrange Multipliers; 1.4 Methods of Mathematical Programming; 1.5 Iterative Search Methods; Theorem; 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; Determination of initial temperature

Temperature decrease-cooling scheme1.6.5 Equality constraints handling in ARS, GA, and SA; 2 Dynamic optimization problems; 2.1 Discrete representations and dynamic programming algorithms; 2.2 Recurrence equations; 2.3 Discrete processes linear with respect to the time interval; 2.4 Discrete algorithm of Pontryagin{'}s type for processes linear in thetaN; 2.5 Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations for continuous systems; 2.5.1 Continuous Optimization Problem; 2.5.2 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 Performance2.5.5 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 analyses; The notion of viscosity solutions; Definition; 2.9 Stochastic control and stochastic Maximum Principle; 3 Energy limits for thermal engines and heat pumps at steady states; 3.1 Introduction: role of optimization in determining thermodynamic limits; 3.2 Classical problem of thermal engine driven by heat flux; 3.2.1 Maximum Power in Thermal Engines

3.2.2 Lagrange Multipliers and Endoreversible System3.2.3 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 Toward work limits in sequential systems; 3.4 Energy utilization and heat pumps; 3.5 Thermal separation processes; 3.6 Steady chemical, electrochemical, and other systems; 3.7 Limits in living systems; 3.8 Final remarks; 4 Hamiltonian optimization of imperfect cascades

4.1 Basic properties of irreversible cascade operations with a work flux4.2 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; 5 Maximum power from solar energy; 5.1 Introducing Carnot controls for modeling solar-assisted operations; 5.2 Thermodynamics of radiation; 5.3 Classical exergy of radiation; 5.4 Flux of classical exergy

5.5 Efficiencies of energy conversion

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Previous edition: 2009.

ISBN:

9780080982274

0080982271

9781299160149

129916014X

OCLC:

829461225