This course aims to supply the undergraduate students with all the appropriate knowledge and skills that will allow them to understand the modelling principles of energy systems, as well as of their design modeling and optimization. The course is based on the exploitation of previously acquired knowledge by the students during core subjects of the earlier semesters. The main objective of the course is a student to be able to integrate this knowledge in practical engineering applications.

1. Workable, optimal and near optimal design. Methods of designing energy systems 
2. Basic thermodynamic principles and definitions. The control volume.
3.  Reactive mixtures and combustion. Thermodynamic modeling of the cogeneration system.
4. Modeling and design of piping system
5. Exergy, physical exergy, exergy balance, chemical exergy
6. Guidelines for evaluating and improving thermodynamic effectiveness
7. Estimation of total capital investment
8. Principles of economic evaluation. Levelized costs and cost of the main product
9. Fundamentals of thermoeconomics
10. Thermoeconomic variables for component evaluation. Thermoeconomic evaluation
11. Cost-Optimal exergetic efficiency for an isolated system component
12.  Analytical and numerical optimization techniques
13. Design optimization for the cogeneration system case study. Thermoeconomic optimization of complex systems.

Suggested Literature:

• Σχεδιασμός και οικονομική μελέτη εγκαταστάσεων για μηχανικούς, 5η Βελτιωμένη Έκδοση, Peters Max,Timmerhaus Klaus D., West Ronald E. (Επιστ. επιμέλεια: Δημήτριος Μαρίνος-Κουρής, Κροκίδα Μαγδαληνή, Ζαχαρίας Μαρούλης), ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ Α. ΤΖΙΟΛΑ & ΥΙΟΙ Α.Ε., 2020
• Bejan, Adrian, Thermal design and optimization / Adrian Bejan, George Tsatsaronis, Michael Moran, New York : John Wiley and Sons, c1996.
• Stoecker, Wilbert F., Design of thermal systems / W. F. Stoecker, New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, c1989.
• Jaluria, Yogesh, Design and optimization of thermal systems / Yogesh Jaluria, New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., c1998.
•  Janna William S.,Design of fluid thermal systems ,2nd ed. Boston; Albany :PWS, c1998
• Boehm Robert F.,Developments in the design of thermal systems, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c1997

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