Advanced Analytic and Control Techniques for Thermal Systems With Heat Exchangers

Advanced Analytic Control Techniques for Thermal Systems with Heat Exchangers presents the latest research on sophisticated analytic and control techniques specific for Heat Exchangers (HXs) and heat Exchanger Networks (HXNs), such as Stability Analysis, Efficiency of HXs, Fouling Effect, Delay Phenomenon, Robust Control, Algebraic Control, Geometric Control, Optimal Control, Fuzzy Control and Artificial Intelligence techniques. Editor Libor Pekař and his team of global expert contributors combine their knowledge and experience of investigated and applied systems and processes in this thorough review of the most advanced networks, analyzing their dynamics, efficiency, transient features, physical properties, performance, feasibility, flexibility and controllability. The structural and dynamic analyses and control approaches of HXNs, as well as energy efficient manipulation techniques are discussed, in addition to the design of the control systems through the full life cycle. This equips the reader with an understanding of the relevant theory in a variety of settings and scenarios and the confidence to apply that knowledge to solve problems in an academic or professional setting.Graduate students and early-mid career professionals require a robust understanding of how to suitably design thermal systems with HXs and HXNs to achieve required performance levels, which this book offers in one consolidated reference. All examples and solved problems included have been tried and tested, and these combined with the research driven theory provides professionals, researchers and students with the most recent techniques to maximize the energy efficiency and sustainability of existing and new thermal power systems.

• Analyses several advanced techniques, the theoretical background of these techniques and includes models, examples and results throughout
• Focusses on advanced analytic and control techniques which have been investigated or applied to thermal systems with HXs and HXNs
• Includes practical applications and advanced ideas from leading experts in the field, as well as case studies and tested problems and solutions

LIBOR PEKAŘ was born in Zlín, Czech Republic, in 1979. He is an associate professor at the Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic. He received a B.S. in automation and informatics from Tomas Bata University in 2002, an M.S. in automation and control engineering in consumption industries in 2005, and a Ph.D. in technical cybernetics from the same institution in 2013. From 2006 to 2013, he worked at the university as a junior lecturer. He became a senior lecturer there in 2013, and in 2018 was appointed as an associate professor.
Pekař is the author of six book chapters, more than 45 journal articles, and 70 conference papers. His research interests include analysis, modeling, identification, and control of time-delay systems, algebraic control methods, autotuning, and optimization techniques. He served as the Lead Guest Editor of special issues in Advances in Mechanical Engineering journal and Mathematics journal. He has been an editor of Mathematical Problems in Engineering since 2018. He has served as a reviewer of contributions to many highly regarded journals, such as Applied Mathematics and Computations, ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, International Journal of Control, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Systems & Control Letters, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, and many others.
Associate Professor Pekař received the Laureate of the ASR Seminary Instrumentation and Control in 2007 and 2009, and the Rectors' Award for the best Ph.D. thesis in the Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in 2013.