Exergy efficiency in industry: Where do we stand?

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 10634-10641

  Ayres, Robert U ^a   Talens Peiró, Laura ^a   Villalba Méndez, Gara ^b  

^a INSEAD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION OF ENERGY; ENERGY INPUTS; EXERGY EFFICIENCIES; FIRST LAW; FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS; FORMAL DEFINITION; INDUSTRY SECTORS; SECOND LAW EFFICIENCIES; SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY;

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EXERGY;

AMMONIA; CHLORINE; INORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXERGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRICITY; EXERGY; HYDROELECTRICITY; INDUSTRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; INDUSTRY; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 83455262544     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es202193u     Document Type: Article

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