Usually efficiency is defined in energetic terms without taking into account the quality of the energy. Another way to analyse and optimise processes and systems is in terms of exergy. The concept of exergy incorporates both qualitative and quantitative properties of energy. Exergy analysis makes the exact determination of the energetic and resource saving potential of industrial processes or s...

Exergy analysis is a powerful diagnostic tool in thermal systems performance evaluation. The use of such an analysis in seawater desalination processes is of growing importance to determine the sites of the highest irreversible losses. In the literature, exergy analyses of seawater desalination systems have sometimes modeled seawater as sodium chloride solutions of equivalent salt content or sa...

in this paper, exergy of conditioned air, exergy efficiency, irreversibility, and entropy generation of common models of evaporative cooling have been investigated in five cities of iran. direct evaporative cooling (dec), indirect evaporative cooling (iec), and two-stage iec/dec as the most popular methods of cooling have been modeled. atmospheric conditions are considered as the dead state of ...

With multiple primary and secondary energy converters (diesel engines, steam turbines, waste heat recovery (WHR) and oil-fired boilers, etc.) and extensive energy networks (steam, cooling water, exhaust gases, etc.), ships may be considered as complex energy systems. Understanding and optimizing such systems requires advanced holistic energy modeling. This modeling can be done in two ways: The ...

Exergy concepts and exergy based methods offer an insight to the understanding of sustainable energy engineering. The utilization of energy and other resources by applying physical concept as exergy and exergy based methods and the value of these tools in the design are presented, in particular Life Cycle Exergy Analysis (LCEA). LCEA is applied to a typical wind power plant. This brings a new a...

This paper presents exergy and exergoeconomic analysis and parametric study of a Diesel engine based Combined Heat and Power (CHP) system that produces 277 kW of electricity and 282 kW of heat. For this purpose, the CHP system is first thermodynamically analyzed through energy and exergy. Then cost balances and auxiliary equations are applied to subsystems. The exergoeconomic analysis is based ...

Since the eco-efficiencies of all industrial processes/plants have become more and more important, engineers need to find a way to integrate control loop configuration and measurements of eco-efficiency. A new measure of ecoefficiency for control loop configuration was developed, the exergy efficiency factor. The exergy efficiency factor is based on the thermodynamic concept of exergy which can...

Exergy analysis is a thermodynamic approach used for analyzing and improving the efficiency of chemical and thermal processes. It has also been extended for life cycle assessment and sustainability evaluation of industrial products and processes. Although these extensions recognize the importance of capital and labor inputs and environmental impact, most of them ignore the crucial role that eco...

Cogeneration may be defined as a system which contains electricity production and regain of the thermo value of exhaust gases simultaneously. The examination is based on the data’s of an active cogeneration plant. This study, it is aimed to determine which component of the system should be revised first to raise the efficiency and decrease the loss of exergy. For this purpose, second law analys...