Exergy Analysis for Energy Conversion Systems

List of contents

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.

About the author

Efstathios Michaelides is currently the Tex Moncrief Chair of Engineering at Texas Christian University. He has forty-years' experience teaching and performing research in thermal science and multiphase flow. Among other honours and awards he has received the Freeman Scholar Award (2002); the ASME Fluids Engineering Award (2014); and the 90th Anniversary ASME-FED Medal (2016).

Product details

• Authors: Efstathios Michaelides, Efstathios (Texas Christian Universit Michaelides, Efstathios (Texas Christian University) Michaelides, Michaelides Efstathios
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.04.2021
• EAN: 9781108480581
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48058-1
• No. of pages: 314
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Sustainability, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mechanical, ENERGY, environmental science, engineering & technology, Conservation of the environment, Energy technology & engineering, Thermodynamics & heat, Fluid mechanics, Mechanics of fluids, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Alternative & renewable energy industries, Energy technology and engineering, Alternative and renewable energy industries, Physics: Fluid mechanics, Energy industries and utilities, Thermodynamics and heat, Coal & Solid Fuel Industries, Engineering: Mechanics of fluids