Exergy as a global energy sustainability indicator. A review of the state of the art

JC Romero, P Linares - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper looks at the suitability of using exergy as an indicator for energy sustainability
studies, by reviewing the relevant literature and describing and assessing the different uses …

Direct steam generation in parabolic-trough collectors: A review about the technology and a thermo-economic analysis of a hybrid system

A Giglio, A Lanzini, P Leone, MMR García… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Direct steam generation in parabolic-trough collectors is considered a promising option for
reducing the cost of electricity produced in solar thermal power plants. Indeed, the use of …

Large-scale solar-thermal desalination

Y Zheng, RAC Gonzalez, KB Hatzell, MC Hatzell - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Solar-thermal desalination technologies could provide a sustainable path toward achieving
high-volume (millions of gallons per day) desalted water in remote and inland regions. Yet …

Advanced exergetic analysis of five natural gas liquefaction processes

A Vatani, M Mehrpooya, A Palizdar - Energy conversion and management, 2014 - Elsevier
Conventional exergy analysis cannot identify portion of inefficiencies which can be avoided.
Also this analysis does not have ability to calculate a portion of exergy destruction which has …

Exergy and exergoeconomic analysis of sustainable direct steam generation solar power plants

AM Elsafi - Energy conversion and Management, 2015 - Elsevier
Solar direct steam generation is considered as a promising technology for steam production
in thermal power generation due to high temperature levels that can be achieved compared …

Exergoeconomic analysis and optimization of a cogeneration system using evolutionary programming

PK Sahoo - Applied thermal engineering, 2008 - Elsevier
Exergoeconomic analysis helps designers to find ways to improve the performance of a
system in a cost effective way. Most of the conventional exergoeconomic optimisation …

Exergy analysis of reverse electrodialysis

F Giacalone, P Catrini, A Tamburini, A Cipollina… - Energy Conversion and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Reverse electrodialysis in closed loop configurations is a promising membrane technology
in the energy conversion and storage fields. One of the main advantages of closed-loop …

Fundamentals of exergy cost accounting and thermoeconomics. Part I: Theory

A Valero, L Serra, J Uche - 2006 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
These two papers resume the theoretical background supporting the main ideas of the
exergy cost accounting and the thermoeconomic approach followed by Valero and co …

Exergy as a useful tool for the performance assessment of aircraft gas turbine engines: A key review

Y Şöhret, S Ekici, Ö Altuntaş, A Hepbasli… - Progress in Aerospace …, 2016 - Elsevier
It is known that aircraft gas turbine engines operate according to thermodynamic principles.
Exergy is considered a very useful tool for assessing machines working on the basis of …

Thermoeconomic operation optimization of a coal-fired power plant

J Xiong, H Zhao, C Zhang, C Zheng, PB Luh - Energy, 2012 - Elsevier
Thermoeconomic models, which combine the concept of cost in the field of economics and
the concept of exergy in the field of thermodynamics, provide a possibility of optimizing …