Frontmatter -- Introduction to Energy Usage, Cost, and Efficiency -- Engineering Economics with VBA Procedures -- Computer-Aided Solutions of Process Material Balances: The Sequential Modular Solution Approach -- Computer-Aided Solutions of Process Material Balances: The Simultaneous Solution Approach -- Process Energy Balances -- Introduction to Data Reconciliation and Gross Error Detection -- Gas Turbine Cogeneration System Performance, Design, and off-Design Calculations: Ideal Gas Fluid Properties -- Development of a Physical Properties Program for Cogeneration Calculations -- Gas Turbine Cogeneration System Performance, Design, and off-Design Calculations: Real Fluid Properties -- Gas Turbine Cogeneration System Economic Design Optimization and Heat Recovery Steam Generator Numerical Analysis -- Data Reconciliation and Gross Error Detection in a Cogeneration System -- Optimal Power Dispatch in a Cogeneration Facility -- Process Energy Integration -- Process and Site Utility Integration -- Site Utility Emissions -- Coal-Fired Conventional Utility Plants with CO Capture (Design and Off-Design Steam Turbine Performance) -- Alternative Energy Systems -- Appendix: Bridging Excel and C Codes -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Energy costs impact the profitability of virtually all industrial processes. Stressing how plants use power, and how that power is actually generated, this book provides a clear and simple way to understand the energy usage in various processes, as well as methods for optimizing these processes using practical hands-on simulations and a unique approach that details solved problems utilizing actual plant data. Invaluable information offers a complete energy-saving approach essential for both the chemical and mechanical engineering curricula, as well as for practicing engineers"-- Provided by publisher.

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