Exergy Analysis for Energy Conversion Systems

Discover a straightforward and holistic look at energy conversion and conservation processes using the exergy concept.

Efstathios Michaelides (Author)

9781108480581, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 April 2021

314 pages
25 x 17.7 x 2.2 cm, 0.68 kg

'This volume by engineering professor Michaelides (Texas Christian Univ.) is essentially an intermediate thermodynamics textbook with an emphasis on losses during energy conversion processes … This book will be most appreciated by postgraduate scholars and instructors who want to advance their existing knowledge of energy conversion processes … Recommended.' M. Alam, Choice Magazine

Discover a straightforward and holistic look at energy conversion and conservation processes using the exergy concept with this thorough text. Explains the fundamental energy conversion processes in numerous diverse systems, ranging from jet engines and nuclear reactors to human bodies. Provides examples for applications to practical energy conversion processes and systems that use our naturally occurring energy resources, such as fossil fuels, solar energy, wind, geothermal, and nuclear fuels. With more than one-hundred diverse cases and solved examples, readers will be able to perform optimizations for a cleaner environment, a sustainable energy future, and affordable energy generation. An essential tool for practicing scientists and engineers who work or do research in the area of energy and exergy, as well as graduate students and faculty in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering and physics.

1. Introduction
2. Exergy
3. Energy conversion systems and processes
4. Exergy consumption and conservation
5. Exergy in biological systems
6. Ecosystems, the environment, and sustainability
7. Optimization and exergoeconomics.

Subject Areas: Environmental science, engineering & technology [TQ], Energy technology & engineering [TH], Mechanics of fluids [TGMF], Sustainability [RNU], Conservation of the environment [RNK], Thermodynamics & heat [PHH], Energy [PHDY], Fluid mechanics [PHDF], Alternative & renewable energy industries [KNBT], Coal & solid fuel industries [KNBC]