CAREER: Thermoeconomic Modeling as a Tool for Advancing the Electric Power Industry

职业：热经济模型作为推动电力行业发展的工具

• 批准号: 0093923
• 负责人: Michael Mann
• 金额: $ 37.5万
• 依托单位: University of North Dakota Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-06-01 至 2006-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0093923&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Thermoeconomic; Modeling; Tool; Advancing

The general concept of energy production and the various forms of energy are easy for most students to grasp.In fact, environmental groups have effectively worked with K-12 science programs to make today's children aware of and concerned about the environmental consequences of energy production in the U.S. and around the world. Today's students have also been exposed to energy efficiency and conservation, and can relate to the fact that changes come with economic consequences. Therefore, various engineering concepts can be introduced to students at all levels using a forum that they can visualize, but more importantly, see the practical connection that is often needed for a student to fully comprehend a concept.The PI proposes to integrate his research on thermodynamic and economic modeling into the classroom. Thethermodynamic modeling proposed deviates from the traditional approach of maximizing energy efficiency byfocusing on optimizing exergy losses and economic efficiency while minimizing the environmental impact.Results from the modeling are used to identify novel concepts and future research areas that will be required to overcome barrier issues that currently limit the optimization of the electric power industry. While the PI is a new PhD, his modeling efforts will draw on over 20 years of experience on advanced power systems accumulated while working for a contract research organization.

能源生产的一般概念和能源的各种形式对大多数学生来说都很容易掌握。事实上，环保组织已经有效地与K-12科学计划合作，使今天的孩子们意识到并关注美国和世界各地能源生产的环境后果。 今天的学生也接触到能源效率和节约，并可以涉及到这样一个事实，即变化带来的经济后果。因此，可以通过可视化的论坛向各级学生介绍各种工程概念，但更重要的是，看到学生充分理解概念所需的实际联系。PI建议将他在热力学和经济建模方面的研究融入课堂。提出的热力学建模偏离了传统的方法，最大限度地提高能源效率的重点是优化火用损失和经济效率，同时最大限度地减少对环境的影响，从建模的结果被用来确定新的概念和未来的研究领域，将需要克服障碍问题，目前限制了电力工业的优化。虽然PI是一个新的博士学位，但他的建模工作将借鉴在合同研究组织工作期间积累的20多年的先进电力系统经验。