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Waste Heat Recovery, Its Utilization and Performance Assessment

Fundamentals and Application

  • 1st Edition - October 29, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Sudipta De, Subha Mondal
  • Language: English

Waste Heat Recovery, Its Utilization and Performance Assessment: Fundamentals and Applications presents a variety of contemporary waste-heat applications designed for use as a guid… Read more

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Description

Waste Heat Recovery, Its Utilization and Performance Assessment: Fundamentals and Applications presents a variety of contemporary waste-heat applications designed for use as a guide to identify, utilize, and assess the performance of otherwise rejected waste heat sources in support of energy efficiency, affordable energy, and a reduced carbon footprint. This reference identifies feasible waste heat recovery opportunities from various sectors, including domestic, commercial, and industrial sources. Researchers, professors, and students in the field of thermal engineering will find this an excellent reference to understand waste heat recovery systems, including sources, recovery, conversion technologies, feasibility assessments, case studies, and more.

Key features

  • Identifies different sources of recoverable waste heat
  • Develops suitable waste heat recovery technologies for a variety of domestic, commercial, and industrial applications
  • Assesses the techno-economic feasibility of waste-heat driven systems
  • Supports sustainability by leveraging waste heat as a source of renewable heat energy

Readership

Researchers, professors, and students in the field of thermal engineering

Table of contents

1. An Overview of Waste Heat Recovery Equipment and Technologies: Fundamentals & Design Aspects
Subha Mondal and Sudipta De

2. Industrial Waste Heat Recovery: Opportunities and Challenges
Jagruti Thakur, Shravan Kumar and Drilon Meha

3. Criteria for Selecting Waste Heat Recovery System in a Step-by-step Methodology
N. Shankar Ganesh, G. Uma Maheswari, T. Srinivas and B.V. Reddy

4. Waste Heat Recovery through Organic Rankine cycle: System Layout and Working Fluid Selection
Panagiotis Lykas, Evangelos Bellos and Christos Tzivanidis

5. Application of CO2 Based Power Cycles in Waste Heat Recovery
Mohab Salem, Ahmed Elberry, Jagruti Thakur and Robertas Poskas

6. Application of Kalina Cycles for Waste Heat Recovery
Sultan Büşra ARTAŞ, Özkan KÖSE, Hüseyin YAĞLI, Yıldız KOÇ, Ali KAHRAMAN and Emrullah KOCAMAN

7. Application of Thermo-electric Generator (TEG) in Waste Heat Recovery
Hamdy Hassan, Alfred Oloo Ochieng and Mohamed Nasser

8. Waste Heat Recovery for District Heating
Shravan Kumar, Jagruti Thakur and Viktoria Martin

9. Desalination Technologies for Waste Heat Recovery
Yousra Filali Baba, Mohamed Mmadi Hassane, Ahmed Al Mers and Wissal Taibi

10. Waste Heat-Driven Cogeneration / Trigeneration Technologies
Mohammad Javad Dehghani

11. Heat Recovery Steam Generator for Waste Heat Recovery from Gas Turbine
Subha Mondal and Sudipta De

12. Technologies to Recover Waste Heat from Abandoned Oil / Gas Wells
Abdelazim Abbas Ahmed, Mohsen Assadi and Raoof Gholami

13. Application of Pinch Analysis in Waste Heat Recovery
Nishant Bhardwaj, Anmol Jain, Abhishek Pandey and Santanu Bandyopadhyay

14. Waste Heat Recovery from Fuel Cells
Sudip Ghosh

15. Waste Heat Recovery from IC Engines
Rajesh Ravi, Oumaima Douadi, Dikra Bakhchin, Mustapha Faqir and Elhachmi Essadiqi

16. Application of Phase Change Material/Battery in Waste Heat Recovery
Himani Anand Meshram and Dibakar Rakshit

17. Enhanced Waste Heat Recovery Using Nano Fluid
Mayank Srivastava, Kartik Kumar and Jahar Sarkar

18. Economic and Environmental Assessment of Waste Heat Recovery Systems: Methodology and Case Study
N. Shankar Ganesh, G. Uma Maheswari, T. Srinivas and B.V. Reddy

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 3, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Sudipta De

Sudipta De is active in the field of sustainable energy, including energy conservation and waste heat recovery. He was a guest researcher for the Department of Energy Sciences at Lund University, in Sweden, for more than one year. He is currently a professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department, Jadavpur University, in India. He was nominated senior scientist by the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi to Technical University of Munich, Germany in the field of sustainable energy under international bilateral exchange program of the Academy. Dr. De has published several international journal papers and more than a dozen international books/invited chapters.
Affiliations and expertise
Mechanical Engineering Department, Jadavpur University, India

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Subha Mondal

Subha Mondal is an assistant professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aliah University, in India. Dr. Mondal’s research focuses specifically on waste heat recovery, including that being used in innovative power and refrigeration cycles, and low temperature geothermal energy technologies. He has published several high impact factor journal papers with good citations and a few book chapters in edited volumes.
Affiliations and expertise
Mechanical Engineering Department, Aliah University, India

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