Case Studies in Energy Systems : A Practical Approach to Energy System Design and Analysis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bianco, Vincenzo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Renewable energy sources.

Thermodynamics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (647 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chantilly : Elsevier, 2025.

Summary:

Case Studies in Energy Systems: A Practical Approach to Energy System Design and Analysis demonstrates the application of both fundamental and advanced principles by providing a broad range of case studies, examples, and models.

Contents:

Front Cover

Case Studies in Energy Systems

Case Studies in Energy Systems: A Practical Approach to Energy System Design and Analysis

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

1 - Introduction

1. What is an energy resource?

2. Energy systems and the concept of primary energy

3. Energy demand and energy supply

4. Energy efficiency and renewable energy systems

5. Case study education: History, current applications and future perspectives

References

2 - Transient heat transfer modelling in buildings based on the thermo-electric analogy

1. Introduction

2. Methodology

2.1 Lumped-capacitance approach

2.2 Example: Dynamic modelling of a thermal storage

3. Case study

3.1 Wall RC model

3.2 Simplified building lumped-RC model

3.2.1 Governing equation

3.2.2 Problem implementation

4. Conclusions

3 - Modelling of thermodynamic cycles in Python

2. Overview of CoolProp for property calculation in Python

2.1 Property calculation in Python

2.2 User-defined class for fluid state definition

2.3 Thermodynamic diagram plotting

3. Fundamentals of energy analysis of thermodynamic cycles in Python

3.1 Simple Rankine cycle overview

3.1.1 Python implementation

3.1.2 Isentropic efficiencies

4. Case studies

4.1 Case study 1: Reheated Rankine cycle

4.1.1 Optimal reheat pressure

4.2 Case study 2: Combined gas-vapour cycle

4.3 Case study 3: geothermal Organic Rankine cycle (ORC)

5. Conclusions

4 - Preliminary design of a combined heat and power system for a beverage industry

2. Case study description

3. Methodology

3.1 CHP thermodynamic modelling

3.2 Investment analysis

4. Python implementation

4.1 Data extraction and analysis of baseline scenario

4.2 Market prices

4.3 Air cycle class.

4.4 Water cycle class

4.5 New system class

4.6 Investment costs

4.7 Economic analysis

5. Results

5.1 Code execution

5.1.1 Plant data import

5.1.2 Air and water cycles calculation

5.1.3 CHP system calculation

5.1.4 Investment analysis

6. Conclusions

5 - Modelling of a commercial refrigeration system in Python

2. Why CO2?

2.1 CO2 as a refrigerant

3. CO2 transcritical booster system

3.1 Thermodynamic analysis

4. TESPy modelling framework

4.1 Model creation

4.1.1 Setting up your environment

4.1.2 Importing TESPy

4.1.3 Creating the network

4.1.4 Defining components

4.1.5 Connecting components

4.1.6 Setting parameters

4.1.7 Running the simulation

4.1.8 Analysing results

5. Case studies

5.1 Case study 1: CO2 booster system

5.1.1 Task 1

5.1.2 Task 2

5.1.3 Task 3

5.1.4 Task 4

5.2 Case study 2: Optimal gas cooler pressure

6 - Optimal piping insulation layer based on economic, embodied energy and embodied carbon assessement

2.1 Case study description

2.2 Heat transfer modelling

2.3 Primary energy and carbon savings

2.4 Embodied energy and embodied carbon assessment

2.5 Investment analysis

3. Python implementation

3.1 Pipe data

3.2 Internal water flow

3.3 Insulation

3.4 External convection

3.5 Heating system

3.6 Pipe configuration

3.7 Economic data

3.8 Assessment

4. Results

4.1 Code execution

4.2 Parametric investigation

7 - Design and optimization of fin-assisted cooling for power transformers

1. Case description

2. Problem analysis

3. Solution strategy

4. Discussion

References.

8 - Design of a cooling system for an electronic component within a manufacturing process

9 - Thermo-economic assessment of an OCGT power plant: Pathways to renewable fuel integration

3.2 Economic analysis

10 - Transient explicit model of buffer tank powered by flat-plate solar-thermal collector

1.1 General idea of heat storage

1.2 Heat storage in domestic hot water systems

2.1 Solar collector system without separate solar medium circuit

2.2 Solar collector system with heat exchanger

2.3 Solar collector system with heat exchanger and auxiliary heat source

3.1 Case 1: Tank with full mixing connected to flat thermal-solar collector

3.2 Case 2: System with a collector loop separated from the main system (filled with glycol solution), equipped with an externa ...

3.3 Case 3: System connected to solar collector and boiler

4.1 Results - Case 1

4.2 Results - Case 2

4.3 Results - Case 3

4.4 Results of cases 1-3 comparison

5. Conclusion

Appendix 1-Detailed results of the simulations

Appendix 2-Description of the calculation worksheet

11 - Technical and financial analysis for the improvement of the energy efficiency of a pasteurizer for food processing

12 - Evaluating the viability of wind energy projects: A case-based approach

4. Discussion.

5. Conclusions

13 - Decomposition of energy consumption. Fundamentals and applications

Index

Back Cover.

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ISBN:

0-443-23864-2

9780443238642

OCLC:

1551399015