The increasing prominence of Sustainable Development as a policy objective has initiated a
debate on appropriate frameworks and tools that will both provide guidance for a shift …

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 …

Circular Economy (CE) is the buzzword of today, promising an economy able to prosper on
limited resources by closing material cycles. However, there is no guarantee that simple …

To improve the ecological performance of energy conversion systems, it is essential to
understand the formation of environmental impact at component level. A method has been …

Both sustainability and sustainable development continue to remain elusive concepts even
now, 20 years after the Brundtland Commission report that brought them into prominence …

In this work, the authors intend to introduce to the scientific community a novel integrated
approach to environmental impact assessment, appropriately named SUstainability …

Sustainability is increasingly used to describe a paradigm for shaping the social and
economic future of mankind. While the concept of sustainability remains elusive, various …

A visual basic application for Microsoft® Excel 2007 has been developed as a helpful tool to
perform mass, energy, exergy and thermoeconomic (MHBT) calculations during the …

Thermoeconomic optimization procedure is applied using genetic algorithm method to an
integrated system composed of an alkaline water electrolysis unit for hydrogen production …

This paper aims at proposing a possible alternative point of view to investigate the
vulnerability of urban systems. The basic ideal refers to the possibility of thinking about …