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 system
11. Systems theory in thermal and chemical engineering. Heat integration within process integration
12. Maximum heat recovery and its consequences for process system design
13. Targeting and supertargeting in heat exchanger network (HEN) design
14. Minimum utility cost (MUC) target by optimization approaches
15. Minimum number of units (MNU) and minimum total surface area (MTA) targets
16. Simultaneous HEN targeting for total annual cost
17. Heat exchanger network synthesis
18. Heat exchanger network retrofit
19. Approaches to water network design