Environmental evaluation of a power plant using conventional and advanced exergy-based methods

Fontina Petrakopoulou, George Tsatsaronis, Tatiana Morosuk and Christopher Paitazoglou

Energy, 2012, vol. 45, issue 1, 23-30

Abstract: An advanced exergoenvironmental analysis combines an advanced exergetic analysis with a life cycle assessment. This allows the environmental impacts of an energy conversion system to be split into avoidable/unavoidable and endogenous/exogenous parts, revealing improvement potential and component interactions. This paper presents the application of an advanced exergoenvironmental analysis to a combined-cycle power plant based on results obtained by a life cycle assessment and a conventional exergoenvironmental analysis. The results are discussed, while possible improvements for reducing the environmental impacts are noted.

Keywords: Exergy-based methods; Advanced exergoenvironmental analysis; Life cycle assessment; Combined-cycle power plant (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2012.01.042

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