understanding from a large number of parametric analyses and cycle-optimization studies for any steady-flow chemically …

. This is achieved by functional minimization of total irreversibility using the attractor trajectory optimization approach …

A comprehensive exergy, exergoeconomic and environmental impact analysis and optimization is reported of several … chamber, and that increasing the gas turbine inlet temperature decreases the CCPP cost of exergy destruction. The optimization … combined cycle power plants (CCPPs). In the first part, thermodynamic analyses based on energy and exergy of the CCPPs are …

temperature and the fuel-mass flow rate on the system exergy efficiency. Parameter optimization was achieved using a GA (genetic …) desalination system were compared based on the exergy viewpoint. In the first system, the GT and RO systems were coupled …-based exergy was conducted to evaluate the effects of the key thermodynamic parameters including the compressor inlet air …

producing hot synthesis gas. In this work, an analysis and nonlinear optimization of the cycle were made in order to investigate …

oxide fuel cells (SOFC) and a micro gas turbine was considered for optimization. The hybrid plant represents a sustainable … thermodynamic modeling combining zero-dimensional component models into complete system-level models. Energy and exergy analyses … were applied. Focus in this optimization study was heat management, and the optimization efforts resulted in a substantial …

Thermoeconomic models, which combine the concept of cost in the field of economics and the concept of exergy in the …, operation optimization on a 300 MW coal-fired power plant located in Yiyang (Hunan Province, China) is accomplished based on the … structure theory of thermoeconomic. Two optimization strategies, global optimization and local optimization, are successively …

The depletion of non-renewable natural exergy resources (the thermo-ecological cost) has been accepted as the objective … function for thermo-ecological optimization. Its general formulation has been cited. A detailed form of the objective function … optimization may have a similar form, only the cost values would be different. …

shown for a multi-objective optimization. In addition, a closed form equation for the relationship between exergy efficiency …Both thermoeconomic modeling and multi-objective optimization studies are undertaken for a novel integrated … produce hot water and a reverse osmosis desalination unit to produce fresh water. Energy and exergy analyses and an …

In this paper, the optimization of a hybrid solid oxide fuel cell–gas turbine (SOFC–GT) power plant is presented. The … design configuration. Next a S/D optimization of the plant is carried out using a traditional single-level approach, based on … a genetic algorithm. The optimization determined a set of S/D decision variable values with a capital cost significantly …