Energy Optimization in Process Systems and Fuel Cells

Stanislaw Sieniutycz is a former member of the Committee of Engineering at the Polish Academy of Sciences and also a professor of chemical engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. His research focuses on problems of chemical, environmental, ecological, and biomechanical engineering with emphasis on analysis, control, and optimization of these systems. He is a former member of the Editorial Board of Open System and Information Dynamics and an honorary editor of the Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics. He has served as an associate editor of Advances in Thermodynamics Series and Energy & Conversion Management. He has published 12 books, 250 articles, and 152 conference papers. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Budapest, University of Bern, University of San Diego, University of Delaware, and University of Chicago.

1. Brief review of static optimization methods 2. Dynamic optimization problems 3. Energy limits for thermal engines and heat pumps at steady states 4. Hamiltonian optimization of imperfect cascades 5. Maximum power from solar energy 6. Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman theory of energy systems 7. Numerical optimization in allocation, storage and recovery of thermal energy and resources 8. Optimal control of separation processes 9. Optimal decisions for chemical reactors 10. Fuel cells and limiting performance of electro-chemo-biological systems 11. Systems theory in thermal and chemical engineering 12. Heat integration within process integration 13. Maximum heat recovery and its consequences for process system design 14. Targeting and supertargeting in heat exchanger network design 15. Minimum utility cost (MUC) target by optimization approaches 16. Minimum number of units (MNU) and minimum total surface area (MTA) targets 17. Simultaneous HEN targeting for total annual cost 18. Heat exchanger network synthesis 19. Heat exchanger network retrofit 20. Approaches to water network design