The tenuous use of exergy as a measure of resource value or waste impact

Sustainability

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1444-1463

  Gaudreau, Kyrke ^a   Fraser, Roydon A ^a   Murphy, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exergy; Resource value; Sustainability assessment; Waste impact

Indexed keywords

EID: 82355180213     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su1041444     Document Type: Article

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