I am working to simulate one of the plants and try to have exergy on it. What is the best CFD program to describe the phenomena and calculate the maximum energy from it?
I have analyzed steam power plants from exergy point of view. I used excel software for the analysis. The properties of the steam are determined by using Thermax (A program developed by Alabama university research group) with Add-Ins facility. The set of the developed linear equations can be solved by excel, also Solver can be used to minimize the irreversibility, or to increase the output, here the decision variables and the objective function must be preset.
The exergy calculations can be performed using the temperature and pressure values from the CFD analysis.FLUENT ANSYS commercial CFD software preferably used for this purpose.