Second law analysis of heat transfer in energy systems

This book contains the following selections: The role for exergy auditing in a thermal power station; Second law analysis of phase-change thermal energy storage systems; A thermal microscale via lost heat into entropy; Direct application of the principle of minimum exergy destruction to fluid flow problems; Steepest-ascent constrained approach to maximum entropy; Second-law analysis of an ideal otto cycle; and Solar parabolic troughs: successive generations are better net energy and exergy producers.