Energy and the Environment Environmental Science and Technology Library VOLUME 15 The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume Energyand the Environment Edited by Adrian Bejan Duke University, Durham, Ne, U.S.A Peter Vadâsz University of Durban-Westville, South Africa and Detlev G Kroger University of Stellenbosch, South Africa SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V A C.I.P Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress ISBN 978-94-010-5943-5 ISBN 978-94-011-4593-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-4593-0 Cover design: River basin dendrites generated by the constructal principle ofthermodynamic optimization subject to constraints (see pp 21-22 in this book; also M.R Errera & A Bejan, Fractals, VoI 6, No 3, pp 245-261, 1998) Printed an acid-free paper AII Rights Reserved © 1999 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1999 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1999 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, includ ing photocopying, record ing or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner Table of Contents Vll fuf~ M.J MORAN Exergy analysis, costing, and assessment of environmental impact ABEJAN The method of entropy generation minimization 11 AE BERGLES Advanced enhancement for heat exchangers 23 AD KRAUS Optimization of finned arrays 37 RK SHAH, B THONON, D.M BENFORADO Opportunities for heat exchanger applications in environmental systems 49 F FRAN