Analysis of Energy Efficiency of Industrial Processes

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. Introduction

   • Vladimir S. Stepanov

   Pages 1-1

3. The Technological Process as a Subject of Thermodynamic Analysis

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   Pages 3-18

4. Efficiency of Technological Processes Based on Energy Balance

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   Pages 19-35

5. Calculation of Chemical Energy and Exergy of Elements and Elementary Substances

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   Pages 37-52

6. Optimizing the Use of Thermal Secondary Energy Resources

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7. Energy Balances in Ferrous Metallurgy

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   Pages 73-101

8. Energy Use and Energy Efficiency Increase in Non-Ferreous Metallurgy

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   Pages 103-144

9. Predicting Energy Conservation in an Industry by Modeling Individual Sectors

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   Pages 145-160

10. Evaluation of Energy Reserves as a Result of Energy Conservation. Ferrous Metallurgy

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    Pages 161-174

11. Back Matter

    Pages 175-186

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It is universally recognized that the end of the current and the beginning of the next century will be characterized by a radical change in the existing trends in the economic development of all countries and a transition to new principles of economic management on the basis of a resource and energy conservation policy. Thus there is an urgent necessity to study methods, technical aids and economic consequences of this change, and particularly, to determine the possible amounts of energy resources which could be conserved (energy "reserves") in different spheres of the national economy. An increased interest towards energy conservation in industry, one of the largest energy consumers, is quite natural and is manifested by the large num­ ber of publications on this topic. But the majority of publications are devoted to the solution of narrowly defined problems, determination of energy reserves in specific processes and plants, efficiency estimation of individual energy conserva­ tion measures, etc. However, it is necessary to develop a general methodological approach to the solution of such problems and create a scientific and methodical base for realizing an energy conservation policy. Such an effort is made in this book, which is concerned with methods for studying energy use efficiency in technological processes and estimation of the theoretical and actual energy reserves in a given process, technology, or industrial sector on the basis of their complete energy balances.

• Energie
• Energieeffizienz
• Energieeinsparung
• Energieverbrauch
• energy
• energy consumption
• energy efficiency
• energy saving
• exergy
• plants
• thermodynamics

• Sibiran Energy Institute, Irkutsk, Russia

  Vladimir S. Stepanov

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