Energy Optimization in Process Systems

Despite the vast majority of people involved in this process. This book fills the gap, presentation optimization and integration in energy and process engineering. The content is based on the literature.

Various thermal and chemical systems (heat and mass exchangers, solar networks, and energy converters, recovery units, solar collectors, and separators) are considered. Thermodynamics, kinetics and economics are used to formulate and solve problems with constraints on process rates, equipment size, environmental parameters, and costs.

Compliance with dynamic computational algorithms for deterministic and stochastic optimization approaches based on: nonlinear, dynamic programming, variational calculus, Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman theory, Pontryagin's maximum principles, and special methods of process integration.

Integration of heat and process water in a total environment. This integration involves the systematic design and optimization of heat exchangers and water networks (HEN and WN). After presentation basic, insight-based Pinch Technology, systematic, optimization-based sequential and simultaneous approaches to design HEN and WN are described. HEN design problem targeting the stage, in view of its importance at various levels of system design. Selected, advanced methods for HEN synthesis and retrofit are presented. For WN design a novel approach based on stochastic optimizations scenarios.

. Presents and the most important thing in the field of science, thermodynamics, kinetics, and systems theory
. Discusses engineering applications including power generation, resource upgrading, radiation conversion, and chemical transformation
. Clarifies how to identify thermal and chemical constraints

. Presents and the most important thing in the field of science, thermodynamics, kinetics, and systems theory
. Discusses engineering applications including power generation, resource upgrading, radiation conversion, and chemical transformation
. Clarifies how to identify thermal and chemical constraints

Preface (with Acknowledgments)
Chapter 1. Brief review of static optimization methods
Chapter 2. Dynamic optimization problems
Chapter 3. Optimization of thermal engines and heat pumps at steady states
Chapter 4. Hamiltonian optimization of imperfect cascades
Chapter 5. Maximum power from solar energy
Chapter 6. Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman theory of energy systems
Chapter 7. Numerical optimization in allocation, storage and recovery of thermal energy and resources
Chapter 8. Optimal control of separation processes
Chapter 9. Optimal decisions for chemical and electrochemical reactors
Chapter 10. Energy limits and evolution in biological systems
Chapter 11. Systems theory in thermal and chemical engineering
Chapter 12. Heat integration within process integration
Chapter 13. Maximum heat recovery and its consequences for the process system design
Chapter 14. Targeting and supertargeting in heat exchanger network (HEN) design
Chapter 15. Minimum utility cost (MUC) target by optimization approaches
Chapter 16. Minimum number of units (MNU) and minimum total surface area (MTA) targets
Chapter 17. Simultaneous HEN targeting for total annual cost
Chapter 18. Heat exchanger network synthesis
Chapter 19. Heat exchanger network retrofit
Chapter 20. Approaches to water network design
References
Glossary of symbols
index