Unavailability percentage as energy planning and economic choice parameter

Umberto Lucia and Giulia Grisolia

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017, vol. 75, issue C, 197-204

Abstract: The unavailability percentage is suggested as an indicator of the level of the technological development in relation to the optimized use of energy. This quantity can be used in economic, and socio-political evaluations because it is related to the exergy lost during a process, and therefore it can provide information on the optimization level obtained through a technology or it can be useful to compare different technologies.

Keywords: Anergy; Exergy; Second law analysis; Technological level; Industrial processes; Sustainable development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2016.10.064

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