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Importance of exergy for analysis, improvement, design, and assessment
Author(s) -
Dincer I.,
Ratlamwala T.A.H.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
wiley interdisciplinary reviews: energy and environment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.158
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 2041-840X
pISSN - 2041-8396
DOI - 10.1002/wene.63
Subject(s) - exergy , exergy efficiency , energy analysis , environmental economics , efficient energy use , component (thermodynamics) , process engineering , energy performance , environmental science , computer science , energy (signal processing) , engineering , economics , thermodynamics , mathematics , statistics , physics , electrical engineering
This study discusses what exergy analysis brings new to the system design, analysis, assessment, and improvement of energy systems. It also presents how efficiencies are defined for performance assessment. Case studies are given to explain how system exergy analysis is performed, and its efficiencies are evaluated for comparison. Exergy destruction rates for each component of the systems are also studied and presented to investigate the possibilities for determining the magnitudes and improving the performance. This article is categorized under: Energy Efficiency > Economics and Policy Energy Efficiency > Systems and Infrastructure