Exergy: Production, Cost and Renewability 2013th Edition

From the reviews:

“The recent book ‘Exergy: Production, Cost and Renewability’ by Silvio de Oliveira Jr. provides a wide review of applications of exergy analysis to energy conversion processes. … this book is an important contribution to the applications of exergy analysis. … The book is well written and presented. It can be certainly recommended to students and researchers in energy and chemical technology.” (Krzysztof J. Ptasinski, Energy, 2013)

Bridging the gap between concepts derived from Second Law of Thermodynamics and their application to Engineering practice, the property exergy and the exergy balance can be a tool for analyzing and improving the performance of energy conversion processes. With the exergy analysis it is possible to evaluate the performance of energy conversion processes not only on a thermodynamics basis but also by including production costs and environmental aspects and impacts of the studied processes. This comprehensive approach of the use of energy has, as one of the most important feature, the identification of sustainable ways of energy resources utilization.

Based on the fundamentals of the exergy concept, its calculation, graphical representations and exergy balances evaluation, Exergy: Production Cost And Renewability describes the application of detailed exergy and thermoeconomic analysis to power plants and polygeneration systems, petroleum production and refining plants (including hydrogen production), chemical plants, biofuel production routes, combined production of ethanol and electricity, aircraft systems design, environmental impact mitigation processes and human body behavior.

The presented case studies aim at providing students, researchers and engineers with guidelines to the utilization of the exergy and thermoeconomic analysis to model, simulate and optimize real processes and industrial plants.