) increasing the compressor pressure ratio raises the energy and exergy efficiencies, especially at lower pressure ratios; (4 …Biomass energy and especially biofuels produced by biomass gasification are clean and renewable options for power … plants. Also, on hot days the performance of gas turbines decreases substantially, a problem that can be mitigated by fog …

This third edition of the book stems from work by the author published in Energy Economics, the International Journal … of Exergy and follow-up working papers. Topics covered include the gas laws, the distribution of income, first and second … maximisation and the cycle, empirical analysis of world energy resources and climate change as factors affecting economic output …

-Roegen (1906–1994) and his advocacy of 'the Entropy Law' as a determinant of economic scarcity. It is argued that exergy is a more … behaviour of energy and matter are not equally mirrored by thermodynamic laws. Thermodynamic insights as typically employed in …

Many factors to be appropriately addressed in moving towards energy sustainability are examined. These include … harnessing sustainable energy sources, utilizing sustainable energy carriers, increasing efficiency, reducing environmental … with the approach put forward, and options for energy sustainability and the broader objective of sustainability. Energy …

In the present work, the results are reported of the energy and exergy analyses of three biomass-related processes for … energy and exergy efficiencies are maximized for the three configurations at particular values of compressor pressure ratios … dual-fuel combined cycle, and the biomass gasification integrated post-firing combined cycle. The energy efficiency for the …

Lowering the exergy content of heat required for heating purposes decreases the primary energy consumption. District … methodology for an exergy-based distribution-network analysis in a district heating system. Criteria for performance evaluations … heating systems are often an important link between facilities that generate heat with low exergy content and consumers …

(6ÈrptÈ12) and flow rate of exhaust gas on the Net work and combined thermal efficiency and exergy loss of exhaust gas …

This investigation explores the influence of oxygenated fuels on different energy and exergy parameters first and the … investigation. A new parameter "oxygen ratio" was used to make a correlation between different energy and exergy parameters with … oxygen ratio. Instead of showing different energy and exergy parameters against equivalence ratio or excess air ratio, for …

capital, labour, resource and waste stocks, with specific reference to energy, and is backed up analysis of data of world … energy resources and climate change. The paper conculdes that both energy resource availability and climate change will have …

In this attempt, the main goal is to do annual performance, environomical analysis, energy analysis and exergy analysis … dryers show relatively similar drying performance. Crops dried inside the greenhouse dryer are found to be more nutrient than …. However, for the active mode of the modified greenhouse dryer is only 1.89 years. The embodied energy of the passive mode of …