Ahmadi, Pouria; Dincer, Ibrahim; Rosen, Marc A. - In: Energy 68 (2014) C, pp. 958-970
, component purchasing and environmental impact, and the system exergy efficiency. The total cost rate of the system is minimized … while the cycle exergy efficiency is maximized using an evolutionary algorithm. To provide insight, the Pareto frontier is … shown for a multi-objective optimization. In addition, a closed form equation for the relationship between exergy efficiency …