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Author:   Silvio de Oliveira Junior
Publisher:   Springer London Ltd
Imprint:   Springer London Ltd
Edition:   2013 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   5.329kg
ISBN:  

9781447158936

ISBN 10:   1447158938
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   14 December 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Exergy: exergy costing and renewability analysis of energy conversion processes.- 3. Exergy and thermoeconomic analysis of power plants, refrigeration and polygeneration systems.- 4. Exergy evaluation of petroleum production and refining processes.- 5. chemical processes analysis and improvement.- 6. Exergy analysis and parametric improvement of the combined production of sugar, ethanol and electricity.- 7. Exergy and renewability analysis of liquid biofuels production routes.- 8. Exergy method for conception and assessment of aircraft systems .- 9. Exergy analysis and environmental impact.- 10. Exergy analysis and human body behavior.

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From the reviews: The recent book Exergy: Production, Cost and Renewability by Silvio de Oliveira Jr. provides a wide review of applications of exergy analysis to energy conversion processes. this book is an important contribution to the applications of exergy analysis. The book is well written and presented. It can be certainly recommended to students and researchers in energy and chemical technology. (Krzysztof J. Ptasinski, Energy, 2013)

Author Information

Silvio de Oliveira Júnior is an Associate Professor at Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He has been developing research activities on heat pumps and refrigeration systems, solar energy, energy conservation in industrial processes, cogeneration systems and exergy and thermoeconomic analysis of thermal processes. He has supervised seven Doctor Thesis (in Mechanical Engineering), 16 Master Dissertations (in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Energy), 9 MBA in Energy and Cogeneration and Distributed Generation, and 69 Undergraduate Projects in Mechanical Engineering. He is author/co-author of about 190 publications and communications and senior member of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering. He is also member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Thermodynamics. He has been involved in the past ten years with research projects related to energy utilization in biodiesel production plants, sugar and alcohol utilities and production plants, offshore and onshore petroleum platforms, refinery utilities plants, production processes of petroleum derived fuels, co/trigeneration and combined cycle plants, airplane energy systems and modeling and simulation of twin-screw multiphase pumping systems.

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