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 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

Stanislaw Sieniutycz is a former member of the Committee of Engineering at the Polish Academy of Sciences and also a professor of chemical engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. His research focuses on problems of chemical, environmental, ecological, and biomechanical engineering with emphasis on analysis, control, and optimization of these systems. He is a former member of the Editorial Board of Open System and Information Dynamics and an honorary editor of the Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics. He has served as an associate editor of Advances in Thermodynamics Series and Energy & Conversion Management. He has published 12 books, 250 articles, and 152 conference papers. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Budapest, University of Bern, University of San Diego, University of Delaware, and University of Chicago.

1. Brief review of static optimization methods2. Dynamic optimization problems3. Energy limits for thermal engines and heat pumps at steady states4. Hamiltonian optimization of imperfect cascades5. Maximum power from solar energy6. Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman theory of energy systems7. Numerical optimization in allocation, storage and recovery of thermal energy and resources8. Optimal control of separation processes9. Optimal decisions for chemical reactors10. Fuel cells and limiting performance of electro-chemo-biological system11. Systems theory in thermal and chemical engineering. Heat integration within process integration12. Maximum heat recovery and its consequences for process system design13. Targeting and supertargeting in heat exchanger network (HEN) design14. Minimum utility cost (MUC) target by optimization approaches15. Minimum number of units (MNU) and minimum total surface area (MTA) targets16. Simultaneous HEN targeting for total annual cost17. Heat exchanger network synthesis18. Heat exchanger network retrofit19. Approaches to water network design