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Women’s Special Issue Series: Entropy

A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Multidisciplinary Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2024) | Viewed by 2238

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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue has been proposed to encourage the participation of women in the enhancement and proliferation of the topical subjects of Entropy, in their respective and specific research fields. In particular, we cordially invite female scientists to contribute comprehensive interdisciplinary research, based on new and innovative perspectives, wherein Entropy can play its relevant key-role in scientific dissemination.

Original theoretical and experimental research papers, such as surveys in all areas related to Entropy, are welcome. The following are some potential subjects and application areas:

Physics and engineering: thermodynamic and statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics, black hole physics, maximum entropy methods

Complex systems: chaos and nonlinear dynamics, simplicity and complexity, networks and social networking

Information theory: Shannon entropy, generalized entropies, applications to data analyses, pattern recognition, coding and decoding, information geometry, statistical complexity

Chemistry and biology: chemical networks, energy, enthalpy, maximum entropy methods, biology...

Articles where the lead authors are women, or that are completely authored by women, are encouraged. We welcome submissions from all authors, irrespective of gender.

Dr. Eun-jin Kim
Dr. Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
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Women’s Special Issue Series

This Special Issue is part of Entropy's Women’s Special Issue Series, hosted by women editors for women researchers. The Series advocates the advancement of women in science. We invite contributions to the Special Issue whose lead authors identify as women. The submission of articles with all-women authorship is especially encouraged. However, we do welcome articles from all authors, irrespective of gender.

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Entropy is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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Advanced Exergy-Based Analysis of an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) for Waste Heat Recovery
by Zineb Fergani and Tatiana Morosuk
Entropy 2023, 25(10), 1475; https://doi.org/10.3390/e25101475 - 23 Oct 2023
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Abstract
In this study, advanced exergy and exergoeconomic analysis are applied to an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) for waste heat recovery to identify the potential for thermodynamic and economic improvement of the system (splitting the decision variables into avoidable/unavoidable parts) and the interdependencies between [...] Read more.
In this study, advanced exergy and exergoeconomic analysis are applied to an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) for waste heat recovery to identify the potential for thermodynamic and economic improvement of the system (splitting the decision variables into avoidable/unavoidable parts) and the interdependencies between the components (endogenous and exogenous parts). For the first time, the advanced analysis has been applied under different conditions: constant heat rate supplied to the ORC or constant power generated by the ORC. The system simulation was performed in Matlab. The results show that the interactions among components of the ORC system are not strong; therefore, the approach of component-by-component optimization can be applied. The evaporator and condenser are important components to be improved from both thermodynamic and cost perspectives. The advanced exergoeconomic (graphical) optimization of these components indicates that the minimum temperature difference in the evaporator should be increased while the minimum temperature difference in the condenser should be decreased. The optimization results show that the exergetic efficiency of the ORC system can be improved from 27.1% to 27.7%, while the cost of generated electricity decreased from 18.14 USD/GJ to 18.09 USD/GJ. Full article
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