Extended exergy accounting as a general method for assessing the primary resource consumption of social and industrial systems

International Journal of Exergy

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 421-440

  Belli, Mario ^a   Sciubba, Enrico ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Exergy; Extended exergy; Production systems; TE; Thermo economics

Indexed keywords

COST ACCOUNTING; ENERGY RESOURCES; ENERGY UTILIZATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

PRODUCTION SYSTEMS; THERMO-ECONOMICS;

EXERGY;

EID: 35448977641     PISSN: 17428297     EISSN: 17428300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEX.2007.015082     Document Type: Article

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