Download THERMO-ECONOMICS and SUSTAINABILITY A.Y. 2015

THERMO-ECONOMICS and SUSTAINABILITY
A.Y. 2015-2016
Credits: 6
Total class hours: 60
Prerequisites: B.Eng. in Mechanical or Energy Engineering or related fields.
A minimum of 6 credits in Thermodynamics.
Course Goals: Provide Engineering Graduate Students with both fundamental and operational
knowledge on the Thermo-Economic approach and procedures. Thermo-Economics deals with the
analysis and the optimisation of energy conversion processes, components and systems. It has been
also applied to chemical and in general to manufacturing processes. Its fundamental merit is that of
performing the process analysis on the basis of an integrated and detailed identification,
quantification and explicit calculation of both the local and global irreversibilities.
Course Outline
1) Brief recapitulation of the methods of Engineering Economics (Techno-economics)
2) Exergy. Definitions & fundamentals; exergy analysis of elementary processes (compression,
expansion, heat exchange, phase changes, combustion); exergy efficiency
3) The concept of Thermo-Economics.
4) Exergy- and Thermo-economic analysis of components and processes
5) Exergy- and Thermo-economic analysis of Complex Systems
6) The Theory of exergetic cost
7) Non-Equivalence of irreversibilities in a process
8) The Extended Exergy Analysis (EEA)
Suggested textbooks: A brief Course in Thermo-Economics, Y. El-Sayed 1998; Design and
Analysis of Thermal Systems (A. Bejan, G. Tsatsaronis, M. J. Moran, 1996). Instructor’s notes.
Course structure: approx. 50 hrs. Lecturing; 10 hrs in-class applications; written & oral
examination
Instructor:
Claudia Toro, [email protected]
Tel 0644585272
Office: Room 16 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering