Thermodynamics of Energy Conversion and Transport (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Sieniutycz, Stanislaw; Vos, Alexis De

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer US
• Seitenzahl: 335
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461212867
• Artikelnr.: 44175609

Autorenporträt

It is becoming more and more important to manage energy resources effectively: to maximize their benefits while minimizing the negative environmental impacts. This book discusses mathematical methods from nonequilibrium thermodynamic that can provide realistic models and analyses for optimizing 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.

Inhaltsangabe

I Conversion of Radiative Energy.- 1 Statistical Mechanics of Solar Energy Conversion.- 2 Thermodynamics of Solar Energy Conversion into Work.- 3 Thermodynamics of Photovoltaics.- 4 Some Methods of Analyzing Solar Cell Efficiencies.- 5 Solar buildings.- II Conversion of Thermal and Chemical Energy.- 6 Discrete Hamiltonian Analysis of Endoreversible Thermal Cascades.- 7 Optimal Piston Paths for Diesel Engines.- 8 Qualitative Properties of Conductive Heat Transfer.- 9 Energy Transfer in Particle-Surface Collisions.- III Energy in Geometrical Thermodynamics.- 10 Geometrical Methods in Thermodynamics.- 11 From Statistical Distances to Minimally Dissipative Processes.- 12 Distillation by Thermodynamic Geometry.