It is becoming more and more important to manage energy resources effectively: to maximize their benefits while minimizing the negative environmental impacts. Scientist and engineers are thus faced with the problem of optimizing complex systems subject to constraints from, ecology, economics, and thermodynamics. It is chiefly to the last that the present volume is addressed. Nonequilibrium thermodynamic approaches, such as finite-time thermodynamics and Second-Law analyses, can provide realistic models and analyses that can be used to search for optimum ways to operate machines and processes. Intended for physicists, chemists, and engineers, this volume reviews the state of the art in the thermodynamics of energy conversion and transmission. Using examples from solar, thermal, mechanical, chemical, and environmental engineering, the book focuses on the use of thermodynamic criteria for optimizing energy conversion and transmission. The first set of chapters focuses on solar energy conversion; the second set discusses the transfer and conversion of chemical energy (as in internal combustion engines or distillation columns); a concluding set of chapters deals with geometric methods in thermodynamics.

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edited by Stanislaw Sieniutycz, Alexis Vos

Sieniutycz, Stanislaw; De Vos, Alexis

Alexis De Vos; Stanislaw Sieniutycz

United States, United States of America

Springer Nature, New York, NY, 2012

New York, NY, New York State, 2000

1st ed. 2000, New York, NY, 2000

2000, 2012

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Scientists and engineers are nowadays faced with the problem of optimizing complex systems subject to constraints from, ecology, economics, and thermodynamics. It is chiefly to the last of these that this volume is addressed. Intended for physicists, chemists, and engineers, the book uses examples from solar, thermal, mechanical, chemical, and environmental engineering to focus on the use of thermodynamic criteria for optimizing energy conversion and transmission. The early chapters centre on solar energy conversion, the second section discusses the transfer and conversion of chemical energy, while the concluding chapters deal with geometric methods in thermodynamics.

Chapter 1. Conversion of radiative energy
Chapter 2. Thermodynamics of solar energy
Chapter 3. Thermodynamics of photovoltaics
Chapter 4. Solar buildings
Chapter 5. Solar buildings
Chapter 6. Discrete Hamiltonian analysis of endoreversible thermal cascades
Chapter 7. Optimal piston paths for Diesel engines
Chapter 8. Qualitative properties of conductive heat transfer
Chapter 9. Energy transfer in particle-surface collisions
Chapter 10. Geometrical methods in thermodynamics
Chapter 11. From statistical distances to minimally dissipative processes
Chapter 12. Distillation by thermodynamic geometry.

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