Energy Conversion System Analysis
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2015) | Viewed by 75574
Special Issue Editor
Interests: energy engineering and refrigeration; energy storage; applied thermodynamics; exergy-based methods; development of energy, cost, and environmentally effective energy-conversion technologies
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Dear Colleagues,
The appropriate evaluation and optimization of an energy conversion system requires selecting an adequate method of analysis. To develop sustainable applications for energy conversion systems, we need a deep understanding of the behavior of these systems from the points of view of thermodynamics, economics, and ecology. We need estimations concerning: (1) thermodynamic inefficiencies and their sources, (2) the costs and environmental impacts associated with an energy conversion system, (3) the interdependencies among thermodynamic inefficiencies, costs, and environmental impacts, and (4) the potential for improving a system. We also need to develop measures for reducing costs and environmental impacts and for increasing overall efficiencies. Based on this information, appropriate design and operation conditions can be found that allow an energy conversion system to work in an optimal manner.
Topics of Interest:
- thermodynamic evaluation using energy, entropy, exergy analyses
- economic evaluation
- LCA
- exergo-, thermo- and techno-economic analyses
- exergo-environmental, -ecological and -environomic analyses
- exergy-based analyses
- mathematical methods of optimization
- multicriteria optimization
Prof. Dr. Tatiana Morosuk
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- thermodynamic analysis
- economic analysis
- LCA
- exergy-based analyses
- multicriteria optimization
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