Exergy Analysis for Energy Conversion Systems

Efstathios Michaelides is currently the Tex Moncrief Chair of Engineering at Texas Christian University. He has forty-years' experience teaching and performing research in thermal science and multiphase flow. Among other honours and awards he has received the Freeman Scholar Award (2002); the ASME Fluids Engineering Award (2014); and the 90th Anniversary ASME-FED Medal (2016).

• 1. Introduction; 2. Exergy; 3. Energy conversion systems and processes; 4. Exergy consumption and conservation; 5. Exergy in biological systems; 6. Ecosystems, the environment, and sustainability; 7. Optimization and exergoeconomics.

'Beginners will discover a simple and holistic view of the energy conversion and conservation process with an exergy concept. The concise but practical description of the fundamental energy conversion process in various systems, from jet engines and nuclear reactors to the human body, is given. Readers can find useful examples of practical energy conversion processes and systems that use naturally occurring energy resources such as fossil fuels, solar energy, wind power, geothermal power, and nuclear fuel. The chapter 'Exergy in Biological Systems' is an outstanding feature of this textbook. Readers can find fundamental examples with solutions of biomass energy conversion system, such as, 'Animal and Human Systems', 'Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Biological Systems', and 'Entropy Production and Exergy Destruction in Humans.'' Yoshiharu Amano, Waseda University