Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Notation
Acronyms
Glossary
Part I: Introduction and Background
Chapter 1 Motivation
Chapter 2 Background: Society, Sustainability, Environment and Energy
Chapter 3 An Introduction to the Environment, Ecology and Exergy,
Chapter 4 History of Exergy and Environmental and Ecological Methods
Part II: Concepts and Methods
Chapter 5 Exergy
Chapter 6 Suitable Reference Environments for Environmental and Ecological Assessments
Chapter 7 Exergy and the Environment
Chapter 8 Exergy and Ecology
Chapter 9 Correlations between Exergy and Other Indicators of Environmental Impact
Chapter 10 Exergy-Based Environmental and Ecological Methods
Chapter 11 Extending Exergy, Environment and Ecology Relations to Economics
Part III: Applications
Chapter 12 Exergy Applications
Chapter 13 Exergy and Environment Applications
Chapter 14 Exergy and Ecology Applications
Chapter 15 Assessing Earth’s Resources Using Exergy
Chapter 16 Assessing Polluted Materials
Chapter 17 Allocating Carbon Dioxide Emissions for Cogeneration using Exergy
Chapter 18 Assessing Environmental Impacts of Aerospace Operations with Exergy
Chapter 19 Environmental Planning with Exergy
Part IV: Case Studies
Chapter 20 Coal-fired Electricity Generation
Chapter 21 Smokestack Operations
Chapter 22 Cogeneration
Chapter 23 Nuclear Electricity Generation
Chapter 24 Biofuels Processing
Chapter 25 Hydrogen Production
Chapter 26 Automotive Operations
Chapter 27 Exergy-guided Environmental Management for Countries, Regions and Sectors
Chapter 28 Closure and Future Directions
References
Index
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