energy and exergy efficiencies of all three zones of salt-gradient solar pond are presented. Need of the evaluation and … saving a large quantity of energy from degradation as well as exergy destruction due to the use of ‘energy based on fossil …Solar energy technologies and their applications are as relevant today as they were in 1950s. A comprehensive review of …

The present study highlights the exergetic performance characteristics of an underground air tunnel for greenhouse … and installed in the Solar Energy Institute, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey. Underground air tunnel systems, also known as … greenhouses, renewable energy sources should be utilized as much as possible. It is expected that effective use of underground air …

In this paper, an energy and exergy analysis is performed on four different wind power systems, including both … respect to both the first and second laws of thermodynamics. The aerodynamic performance of each system is numerically …

cooling along with evaporative aftercooling has an obvious increase in the energy and exergy efficiency compared to the basic …In this paper, exergy method is applied to analyze the gas turbine cycle cogeneration with inlet air cooling and … evaporative aftercooling of the compressor discharge. The exergy destruction rate in each component of cogeneration is evaluated …

In this paper, energy and exergy analyses of the geothermal-based hydrogen production via thermochemical water … decomposition using a new, four-step copper–chlorine (Cu–Cl) cycle are conducted, and the respective cycle energy and exergy … performance are affected by reference environment temperatures, reaction temperatures, as well as energy efficiency of the …

mathematical model) and analyzed based on the first- and second law of thermodynamics. The energy and exergy analysis were carried …, application of microwave energy during fluidized bed drying enhanced the exergy efficiency of drying process. However, the results …The performance of microwave-assisted fluidized bed drying of soybeans was simulated (using a previously validated …

) of a dual-fuel diesel engine (H2 (hydrogen)–diesel) using exergy analysis. The maximum available work increased with H2 … conventional base mode (without H2) to 31.7% with dual-fuel mode (18% H2 energy share) whereas total irreversibility of the engine … decreased drastically from 41.2% to 39.3%. The energy efficiency of the engine with H2 increased about 10% with 36% reduction in …

Exergy is used as a common currency to assess and compare the reservoirs of theoretically extractable work we call … energy resources. Resources consist of matter or energy with properties different from the predominant conditions in the … environment. These differences can be classified as physical, chemical, or nuclear exergy. This paper identifies the primary …

law efficiency, energy cost and the external social cost of air pollution for an operational system. Social cost of air … registered practical performance results from Shahid Rajaee power plant. It is concluded that using of inlet fogging system …

produce hot water and a reverse osmosis desalination unit to produce fresh water. Energy and exergy analyses and an …, component purchasing and environmental impact, and the system exergy efficiency. The total cost rate of the system is minimized … while the cycle exergy efficiency is maximized using an evolutionary algorithm. To provide insight, the Pareto frontier is …