Exergy analysis for energy conversion systems:

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 exa...

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Main Author: Michaelides, Efstathios E. 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2021
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Summary: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
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Exergy -- Energy conversion systems and processes -- Exergy consumption and conservation -- Exergy in biological systems -- Ecosystems, the environment, and sustainability -- Optimization and exergoeconomics
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 297 Seiten)
ISBN:9781108635684
DOI:10.1017/9781108635684

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