An indicator to evaluate the thermodynamic maturity of industrial process units in industrial ecology

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 159-172

  Zvolinschi, Anita ^a   Kjelstrup, Signe ^b,c  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b Chemistry Department

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Entropy production; Equipartition; Exergy balance; Exergy efficiency; Optimization; Process units

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; DISTILLATION; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; ENTROPY; EXERGY; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; PAPER COATING; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; REACTION KINETICS;

(+ MOD 2N) OPERATION; (E ,3E) PROCESS; (OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; ACTUAL OPERATION; DYNAMIC FUNCTIONS; ENTROPY PRODUCTION; EXERGY EFFICIENCIES; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY (IE); INDUSTRIAL PROCESSING; INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS; IRREVERSIBLE THERMODYNAMICS THEORY; LITERATURE DATA; MINIMUM ENTROPY; PAPER DRYING; PROCESS INDUSTRIES; PROCESS UNITS; PRODUCTION CAPACITIES; SINGLE PROCESS; THERMODYNAMIC LIMIT; YALE UNIVERSITY;

THERMODYNAMICS;

ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENTROPY; EXERGY; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY; THERMODYNAMICS;

BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; COATINGS; COLUMNS; DISTILLATION; ECOLOGY; ENTROPY; INDUSTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; OPTIMIZATION; PAPER; PROCESSES; PRODUCTION; REACTION KINETICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 45849121385     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: 15309290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-9290.2008.00024.x     Document Type: Review

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