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Exergy Analysis of Green Energy Systems

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Green Energy

Part of the book series: Progress in Green Energy ((PGE,volume 1))

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Exergy analysis is a thermodynamic analysis technique based primarily on the Second Law of Thermodynamics. As an alternative to energy analysis, exergy analysis provides an illuminating means of assessing and comparing processes and systems rationally and meaningfully. Consequently, exergy analysis can assist in improving and optimizing designs. Two key features of exergy analysis are (1) it yields efficiencies which provide a true measure of how nearly actual performance approaches the ideal, and (2) it identifies more clearly than energy analysis the types, causes and locations of thermodynamic losses.

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Dincer, I., Rosen, M. (2011). Exergy Analysis of Green Energy Systems. In: Li, X. (eds) Green Energy. Progress in Green Energy, vol 1. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-647-2_2

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