Thermodynamic Analysis and Process Intensification: Second Edition
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Thermodynamics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 17
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Interests: transport and rate processes; thermodynamic coupling; self-organization; reaction-diffusion systems; information theory; fluctuation theory
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Dear Colleagues,
Thermodynamic analysis (TA) suggests process improvements for better matching the design parameters with the operating conditions that lead to less irreversible processes, hence ensuring less unnecessary energy dissipation. TA may include energy and exergy analyses, the equipartition principle, pinch analysis, second law analysis, entropy production minimization, and thermodynamically coupled processes. TA has been shown to be particularly beneficial in energy-intensive systems.
Process intensification (PI) focuses on considerable improvements in the manufacturing sector through modifications leading to more precise, efficient, economical, and safer processes. PI principles may include spatial, thermodynamic, functional, temporal, and knowledge domains. The functional domain aims to combine functions within a smaller number of devices. The spatial domain maintains structure in equipment, avoiding variability in products. The temporal domain suggests that time can change through an induced unsteady-state into a steady-state process. The thermodynamic domain focuses on energy conversion and transfer with minimal energy loss and emissions. The knowledge domain focuses on data-driven decisions enabled by machine learning that is directed toward intensified equipment, method, and plant design. PI may decrease the degrees of freedom and hence may create challenges in terms of design and operation. PI can also be used as a design strategy with data-driven models enabled by machine learning that is directed toward intensified equipment/unit, method, and plant design. This can lead to accelerated product and material discoveries with sustainable practices. Some guiding principles for PI are as follows:
- Maximize the effectiveness of intramolecular and intermolecular interactions toward higher conversion, yield, and selectivity in chemical reactions.
- Provide uniformly distributed conditions for all the molecules used in a process.
- Maintain uniform driving forces to reduce or evenly distribute irreversibility in space and in time to lower energy dissipation.
- Maximize synergetic interactions among the parts of a process.
- Decrease complexity, footprint, byproducts, energy usage, water use, waste, cost, and risk in manufacturing.
This Special Issue invites the scientific community to submit manuscripts to emphasize thermodynamic analysis and process intensification toward smart design with energy and resource conservations.
Prof. Dr. Yasar Demirel
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- thermodynamic analysis
- process intensification
- process irreversibility
- information processing
- energy efficiency
- resource conservation
- energy conservation
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