TE4301 Design and Optimization of Thermal Energy Systems Syllabus:
TE4301 Design and Optimization of Thermal Energy Systems Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
OBJECTIVES
To learn basic principles underlying pumping, heat exchangers; modeling and optimization in design of thermal systems.
To develop representational modes of real processes and systems.
To optimization concerning design of thermal systems.
UNIT I DESIGN CONCEPTS
Design Principles, Workable Systems, Optimal Systems, Matching of System Components, Economic Analysis, Depreciation, Gradient Present Worth factor, modelling overview – levels and steps in model development – Examples of models – curve fitting and regression analysis
UNIT II MODELLING AND SYSTEMS SIMULATION
Modelling of thermal energy systems – heat exchanger – solar collectors – distillation – rectification turbo machinery components – refrigeration systems – information flow diagram – solution of set of nonlinear algebraic equations – successive substitution – Newton Raphson method- examples of thermal systems simulation
UNIT III OPTIMIZATION
Objectives – constraints, problem formulation – unconstrained problems – necessary and sufficiency conditions. Constrained optimization – Lagrange multipliers, constrained variations, Linear Programming – Simplex tableau, pivoting, sensitivity analysis – New generation optimization techniques – examples
UNIT IV DYNAMIC BEHAVIOUR
Steady state Simulation, Laplace Transformation, Feedback Control Loops, Stability Analysis, Non-Linearities
UNIT V APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES
Case studies of optimization in thermal systems problems- Dealing with uncertainty- probabilistic techniques – Trade-offs between capital and energy using Pinch analysis
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
OUTCOME
On successful Completion of this course the student will be understand modeling and optimization of Thermal systems.
REFERENCES
1. B.K.Hodge, Analysis and Design of Thermal Systems, Prentice Hall Inc., 1990.
2. Bejan A., George Tsatsaronis , Michael J. Moran , Thermal Design and Optimization, Wiley , 1996.
3. D.J. Wide, Globally Optimal Design, Wiley- Interscience, 1978.
4. Kapur J. N., Mathematical Modelling , Wiley Eastern Ltd , New York , 1989.
5. Rao S. S., Engineering Optimization Theory and Practice, New Age Publishers, 2000.
6. Stoecker W. F., Design of Thermal Systems, McGraw Hill Edition, 1989.
7. YogeshJaluria , Design and Optimization of Thermal Systems , CRC Press , 2007.