Practical Approach to Exergy and Thermoeconomic Analyses of Industrial Processes [electronic resource] / by Enrique Querol, Borja Gonzalez-Regueral, Jose Luis Perez-Benedito.

1. Introduction -- 2. Matrix Algebra and Balances -- 3. Exergetic Costs -- 4. Thermoeconomic Costs -- 5. Thermoeconomic Optimization.

Although the exergy method has been featured as the subject of many publishing papers in scientific and engineering journals and at conferences, very few comprehensive books on this subject have been published so far. Practical Approach to Exergy and Thermoeconomic Analyses of Industrial Processes details the exergetic and thermoeconomic analyses of industrial processes using Aspen Plus and a novel Microsoft Excel Application developed by the authors which can be applied to industrial processes across the board.  Employing a practical approach to an innovative and complex energy process, every chapter contains extensive explanations of a complex and real case and numerous examples whose solution demonstrates the application of theory to a wide range of real and practical problems. Illustrations, tables and graphs support and illustrate the new methodology to build a deep understanding of the real employment of the fuel used and the cost formation and increase inside the process.  Practical Approach to Exergy and Thermoeconomic Analyses of Industrial Processes  provides users, students and practitioners of process analysis, power plant design and fuel use optimization, with a broad introduction and approach to computer aided process optimization. It also serves as a comprehensive guide to the operational application of the MHBT to real cases analysis.