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  title info:
    title: Thermodynamics of Energy Conversion and Transport
  name:
    name part: Sieniutycz, Stanislaw.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Vos, Alexis.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (XXII, 335 pages 74 illustrations)
  abstract: It is becoming more and more important to manage energy resources effectively: to maximize their benefits while minimizing the negative environmental impacts. Scientist and engineers are thus faced with the problem of optimizing complex systems subject to constraints from, ecology, economics, and thermodynamics. It is chiefly to the last that the present volume is addressed. Nonequilibrium thermodynamic approaches, such as finite-time thermodynamics and Second-Law analyses, can provide realistic models and analyses that can be used to search for optimum ways to operate machines and processes. Intended for physicists, chemists, and engineers, this volume reviews the state of the art in the thermodynamics of energy conversion and transmission. Using examples from solar, thermal, mechanical, chemical, and environmental engineering, the book focuses on the use of thermodynamic criteria for optimizing energy conversion and transmission. The first set of chapters focuses on solar energy conversion; the second set discusses the transfer and conversion of chemical energy (as in internal combustion engines or distillation columns); a concluding set of chapters deals with geometric methods in thermodynamics.
  table of contents: Chapter 1. Conversion of radiative energy -- Chapter 2. Thermodynamics of solar energy -- Chapter 3. Thermodynamics of photovoltaics -- Chapter 4. Solar buildings -- Chapter 5. Solar buildings -- Chapter 6. Discrete Hamiltonian analysis of endoreversible thermal cascades -- Chapter 7. Optimal piston paths for Diesel engines -- Chapter 8. Qualitative properties of conductive heat transfer -- Chapter 9. Energy transfer in particle-surface collisions -- Chapter 10. Geometrical methods in thermodynamics -- Chapter 11. From statistical distances to minimally dissipative processes -- Chapter 12. Distillation by thermodynamic geometry.
  note: edited by Stanislaw Sieniutycz, Alexis Vos.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Thermodynamics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Thermodynamics
  classification: QC310.15-319
  classification: 536.7
  identifier: 9781461212867 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1461212863 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: I9W
    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20260422224049.2
    record identifier: in00003547063
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng