Thermal Design and Optimization is a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to thermal system design.

Thermal Design and Optimization offers a lucid introduction to the latest methodologies for the design of thermal systems and emphasizes engineering economics, system simulation, and optimization methods. The methods of exergy analysis, entropy generation minimization, and thermoeconomics are incorporated in an evolutionary manner.

This book is one of the few sources available that addresses the recommendations of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology for new courses in design engineering. Thermal Design and Optimization provides a review of fundamental concepts, extensive reference lists, end-of-chapter problem sets, helpful appendices, and a comprehensive case study that is followed throughout the text.

Contents

Introduction to Thermal System Design

• Preliminaries
• Workable, optimal, and nearly optimal designs
• Life-cycle design
• Thermal system design aspects
• Concept creation and assessment
• Computer-aided thermal system design

Thermodynamics, Modeling, and Design Analysis

• Basic concepts and definitions
• Control volume concepts
• Property relations
• Reacting mixtures and combustion
• Thermodynamic model—cogeneration system

Exergy Analysis

• Exergy
• Physical exergy
• Exergy balance
• Chemical exergy
• Applications
• Guidelines for evaluating and improving thermodynamic effectiveness

Heat Transfer, Modeling, and Design Analysis

• The objective of heat transfer
• Conduction
• Convection
• Radiation

Applications with Heat and Fluid Flow

• Thermal insulation
• Fins
• Electronic packages

Applications with Thermodynamics and Heat and Fluid Flow

• Heat exchangers
• The trade-off between thermal and fluid flow irreversibilities
• Air preheater preliminary design
• Additional applications

Economic Analysis

• Estimation of total capital investment
• Principles of economic evaluation
• Calculation of revenue requirements
• Levelized costs and cost of the main product
• Profitability evaluation and comparison of alternative investments

Thermoeconomic Analysis and Evaluation

• Fundamentals of thermoeconomics
• Thermoeconomic variables for component evaluation
• Thermoeconomic evaluation
• Additional costing considerations

Thermoeconomic Optimization

• Introduction to optimization
• Cost-optimal exergetic efficiency for an isolated system component
• Optimization of heat exchanger networks
• Analytical and numerical optimization techniques
• Design optimization for the cogeneration system case study
• Thermoeconomic optimization of complex systems

Appendices
Index

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