Emergy and exergy analyses: Complementary methods or irreducible ideological options?

Energy

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1953-1988

  Sciubba, Enrico ^a   Ulgiati, Sergio ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; BENCHMARKING; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ETHANOL; EXERGY; OPTIMIZATION; THERMODYNAMICS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ENERGY INPUT; ENERGY OUTPUT; EXTENDED EXERGY ACCOUNTING (EEA); THERMO-ECONOMICS (TE);

ENERGY RESOURCES;

EMERGY; EXERGY;

EID: 12444339364     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2004.08.003     Document Type: Article

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