Efficiency and Costing: Second Law Analysis of Processes

by Richard A. Gaggiolo

Second law analysis for process and energy engineering / Richard A. Gaggioli --Second law analysis to improve industrial processes / William F. Kenney --Reversibility of combustion processes / Horst J. Richter and Karl F. Knoche --Thermodynamic analysis of chemical energy transport / H.B. Vakil --Thermodynamic analysis of gas turbine cycles with chemical reactions / H.B. Vakil --Available energy analysis of a sulfuric acid plant / K. Ravindranath and S. Thiyagarajan --Exergetic analysis of energy conversion processes : coal hydrogasification / Karl F. Knoche and G. Tsatsaronis --Application of exergy analysis to the design of a waste heat recovery system for coal gasification / Eberhard Nitschke --Thermodynamic availability analysis in the synthesis of optimum-energy and minimum-cost heat exchanger networks / F.A. Pehler and Y.A. Liu --Hierarchical structure analysis based on energy and exergy transformation of a process system / Masaru Ishida --Strategic use of thermoeconomics for system improvement / Y. El-Sayed and M. Tribus --Essergetic functional analysis for process design and synthesis / Robert B. Evans, Prasanna V. Kadaba, and Walter A. Hendrix --Thermoeconomic optimization of a Rankine cycle cogeneration system / Robert M. Garceau and William J. Wepfer --Application of second law based design optimization to mass transfer processes / Bryan B. Moore and William J. Wepfer --Multiobjective optimal synthesis / L.T. Fan and J.H. Shieh --Multiobjective analysis for energy and resource conservation in an evaporation system / H. Nishitani and E. Kunugita --Energy and exergy estimation using the group contribution method / J.H. Shieh and L.T. Fan --Thermodynamic properties of coal and coal-derived liquids : evaluation and application to the exergy analysis of a coal liquefaction process / Masaru Ishida, Takahiro Suzuki, and Naonori Nishida --Thermodynamic availability of solar radiation with special attention to atmospheric Rayleigh scattering / R.H. Edgerton and J.A. Patten --Bibliography / Y.A. Liu and W.J. Wepfer.

462 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1983