Energy Optimization in Process Systems and Fuel Cells, Second 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 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 second edition contains substantial revisions, with particular focus on the rapid progress in the field of fuel cells, related energy theory, and recent advances in the optimization and control of fuel cell systems. - New information on fuel cell theory, combined with the theory of flow energy systems, broadens the scope and usefulness of the book - Discusses engineering applications including power generation, resource upgrading, radiation conversion, and chemical transformation in static and dynamic systems - Contains practical applications of optimization methods that help solve the problems of power maximization and optimal use of energy and resources in chemical, mechanical, and environmental engineering

Stanislaw Sieniutycz is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Institute of Chemical and Process Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland. His research focuses on thermal and chemical engineering with special emphasis on the control, stability and optimization of chemical and electrochemical reaction systems. He published 10 books with international scientific publishers and 224 articles in international scientific journals, and 140 conference and invited papers. He is Associate Editor and Member of Editorial Board of the Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, Associate Editor and Member of Editorial Board of the Journal: Open Systems and Information Dynamics, Associate Editor and Member of Editorial Board of the Journal: International Journal of Applied Thermodynamics, Member of Editorial Board of the Journal: Energy and Conversion Management, Associate Editor of Advances in Thermodynamics Series, Member of Committee of Chemical Engineering at Polish Academy of Sciences. He received 7 awards.

Energy Optimization in Process Systems and Fuel Cells, Second 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 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 second edition contains substantial revisions, with particular focus on the rapid progress in the field of fuel cells, related energy theory, and recent advances in the optimization and control of fuel cell systems.

• New information on fuel cell theory, combined with the theory of flow energy systems, broadens the scope and usefulness of the book
• Discusses engineering applications including power generation, resource upgrading, radiation conversion, and chemical transformation in static and dynamic systems
• Contains practical applications of optimization methods that help solve the problems of power maximization and optimal use of energy and resources in chemical, mechanical, and environmental engineering

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