A Review of: “The Exergy Method: Technical and Ecological Applications”

This book presents the fundamental principles of exergy analysis and discusses new achievements in the field over the last 15 years. The exergy method makes it possible to detect and quantify the possibilities of improving thermal and chemical processes and systems. The introduction of the concept thermo-ecological cost (cumulative consumption of nonrenewable natural exergy resources) generated large application possibilities of exergy in ecology. One of the most important issues is the economy of non-renewable natural exergy. Several important new problems are highlighted which have previously only been discussed in scientific journals. The contents of the book include chapters relating to nomenclature, exergy balance and exergy losses, calculation of exergy, cumulative exergy consumption and partial exergy losses, practical rules for improving thermodynamic imperfection, depletion of nonrenewable natural resources, thermo-ecological cost, economic applications of exergy, application of exergy for determining the pro-ecological tax, appendix, solutions of exercises, and a comprehensive reference section. The Exergy Method: Technical and Ecological Applications is appropriate for graduate students as well as scientists and engineers working in the field of energy and ecological management.