Based on the concepts of avoidable/unavoidable exergy destructions and investment costs, this article presents an exergy analysis and an exergoeconomic evaluation to identify the potential energy savings in distillation processes. Methods for calculating the avoidable/unavoidable exergy...

Splitting the exergy destruction into endogenous/exogenous and unavoidable/avoidable parts represents a new development in the exergy analysis of energy conversion systems. This splitting improves the accuracy of exergy analysis, improves our understanding of the thermodynamic inefficiencies and...

Splitting the exergy destruction into endogenous/exogenous and unavoidable/avoidable parts has many advantages for the detailed analysis of energy conversion systems. Endogenous is the exergy destruction obtained when all other system components are ideal and the component being considered...