This book provides a comprehensive guide to thermal design and optimization, authored by Adrian Bejan, George Tsatsaronis, and Michael Moran. It covers the principles of thermal system design, including workable, optimal, and nearly optimal designs, life-cycle design, and the design process. The book also discusses environmental, safety, and reliability aspects of thermal systems, as well as performance and cost data. It includes concept creation and assessment, computer-aided design, and closure. The second chapter focuses on thermodynamics, modeling, and design analysis, covering basic concepts, control volume concepts, property relations, reacting mixtures and combustion, and thermodynamic modeling of cogeneration systems. It also discusses piping system design and analysis. The third chapter covers exergy analysis, including exergy, physical exergy, chemical exergy, and applications in cogeneration systems, exergy destruction, and exergetic efficiency. It also provides guidelines for evaluating and improving thermodynamic effectiveness. The fourth chapter discusses heat transfer, modeling, and design analysis, covering conduction, convection, radiation, and their applications. The fifth and sixth chapters explore applications involving heat and fluid flow, including thermal insulation, fins, electronic packages, heat exchangers, and the trade-off between thermal and fluid flow irreversibilities. The seventh chapter focuses on economic analysis, including capital investment estimation, economic evaluation principles, revenue requirements, levelized costs, and profitability evaluation. The eighth chapter discusses thermoeconomic analysis and evaluation, including exergy costing, thermoeconomic variables, and additional costing considerations. The ninth chapter covers thermoeconomic optimization, including optimization techniques, heat exchanger network optimization, and design optimization for cogeneration systems. The book also includes appendices on variational calculus, economic models, property data tables, symbols, and conversion factors, along with an index.This book provides a comprehensive guide to thermal design and optimization, authored by Adrian Bejan, George Tsatsaronis, and Michael Moran. It covers the principles of thermal system design, including workable, optimal, and nearly optimal designs, life-cycle design, and the design process. The book also discusses environmental, safety, and reliability aspects of thermal systems, as well as performance and cost data. It includes concept creation and assessment, computer-aided design, and closure. The second chapter focuses on thermodynamics, modeling, and design analysis, covering basic concepts, control volume concepts, property relations, reacting mixtures and combustion, and thermodynamic modeling of cogeneration systems. It also discusses piping system design and analysis. The third chapter covers exergy analysis, including exergy, physical exergy, chemical exergy, and applications in cogeneration systems, exergy destruction, and exergetic efficiency. It also provides guidelines for evaluating and improving thermodynamic effectiveness. The fourth chapter discusses heat transfer, modeling, and design analysis, covering conduction, convection, radiation, and their applications. The fifth and sixth chapters explore applications involving heat and fluid flow, including thermal insulation, fins, electronic packages, heat exchangers, and the trade-off between thermal and fluid flow irreversibilities. The seventh chapter focuses on economic analysis, including capital investment estimation, economic evaluation principles, revenue requirements, levelized costs, and profitability evaluation. The eighth chapter discusses thermoeconomic analysis and evaluation, including exergy costing, thermoeconomic variables, and additional costing considerations. The ninth chapter covers thermoeconomic optimization, including optimization techniques, heat exchanger network optimization, and design optimization for cogeneration systems. The book also includes appendices on variational calculus, economic models, property data tables, symbols, and conversion factors, along with an index.