- International Journal of Thermodynamics
- Volume:5 Issue:4
- A Brief Review of Methods for the Design and Synthesis Optimization of Energy Systems
A Brief Review of Methods for the Design and Synthesis Optimization of Energy Systems
Authors : Christos FRANGOPOULOS, Michael VON SPAKOVSKY, Enrico SCİUBBA
Pages : 151-160
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Publication Date : 2002-12-01
Article Type : Research Paper
Abstract :The optimization of energy systems is of crucial importance for a rational use of natural and economic resources and for minimizing their adverse effects on the environment. Optimizing such systems may be considered at three levels: synthesis insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(configuration);, design insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(component characteristics);, and operation. The first two of these levels are ex-amined in this article. After a discussion on the uniqueness of the solution and the pos-sibility of finding this solution, the principal approaches and methods for solving the optimization problem are described in brief.Keywords : thermoeconomics, design optimization of energy systems, synthesis optimization of energy systems, artificial ıntelligence, genetic algorithms, mathematical programming, decomposition
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