Sciacovelli, A.; Verda, V.; Sciubba, E. - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 43 (2015) C, pp. 1167-1181
There is an acknowledged growing need for efficient and sustainable systems that use available energy resources in an “optimal” (including constraints) way. Such a goal cannot be effectively achieved without taking into account the limits posed by the second law of thermodynamics. A possible...