This paper presents a study concerning the optimization of a Waste Water Treatment process. The process deals with …

The present work is focused on the thermodynamic optimization of organic Rankine cycles (ORCs) for power generation and … general goal is to provide optimization guidelines for a wide range of operating conditions, for subcritical and transcritical … feed pump) was also carried out. An optimization model of the ORC (available as an electronic annex) is proposed to predict …

Computational optimization is used to determine the optimal design and time-varying operations of a carbon dioxide …

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. …

optimization model consists of a simulation model of a solar-assisted drying system combined with an economic model. The simulation … simulation model was used for the optimization of the solar-assisted drying system. An economic model was formulated to calculate … the annual drying cost. The optimization problem was defined as the optimization of the geometry and operational …

Second-law modeling of flat-plate collectors is performed with the objective of describing collector performance when …

shares and the resulting power flows are calculated as the solution of a cost optimization problem without energy storage. As …