A critical comparison between thermoeconomic and emergy analyses algebra

Andrea Lazzaretto

Energy, 2009, vol. 34, issue 12, 2196-2205

Abstract: Both thermoeconomic accounting and emergy analysis methodologies deal with energy systems and are aimed at allocating costs of input resources among system products. They have, however, different goals and fields of application. The former focuses on energy systems converting the energy of fuel/s into the desired product/s. The latter amplifies the perspective by extending it to the wider level of biosphere, by including all the processes that are involved in the formation of system inputs, either devices or material and energy flows.

Keywords: Emergy; Exergy; Thermoeconomic accounting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2008.10.020

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