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Delving Into Thermoeconomics: A Brief Theoretical Comparison of Thermoeconomic Approaches for Simple Cooling Systems [PDF]
Frontiers in Sustainability, 2021 Thermoeconomics combines the concepts of economics and thermodynamics to assess the cost formation process of thermal systems. It has great applicability in the allocation, optimization and diagnosis of product costs.
Ana Picallo-Perez
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Role of Waste Cost in Thermoeconomic Analysis [PDF]
Entropy, 2020 Power plants or thermal systems wherein products such as electricity and steam are generated affect the natural environment, as well as human society, through the discharging of wastes.
Cuneyt Uysal, Ho-Young Kwak
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Application of Thermoeconomics to Industrial Ecology [PDF]
Entropy, 2010 Industrial Ecology involves the transformation of industrial processes from linear to closed loop systems: matter and energy flows which were initially considered as wastes become now resources for existing or new processes.
Antonio Valero +2 more
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Application of Thermoeconomics in HVAC Systems [PDF]
Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 2020 In order to achieve a sustainable society, the energy consumption in buildings must be reduced. The first step toward achieving this goal is to detect their weak points and analyze the energy-saving potential.
Ana Picallo-Perez, JOSÉ Maria Sala
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A New Exergy Disaggregation Approach for Complexity Reduction and Dissipative Equipment Isolation in Thermoeconomics [PDF]
Entropy, 2022 Thermoeconomics connects thermodynamic and economic concepts in order to provide information not available in conventional energy and economic analysis.
Rodrigo Guedes dos Santos +4 more
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Journal of Banking and Financial Economics, 2017 This paper illustrates that basic global economic concepts can be directly related to the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics. We believe that all economic returns are from nothing except from current and past human expenditure of human energy ...
Mario W. Cardullo, Manhong Mannie Liu
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Application of Circular Thermoeconomics to the Diagnosis of Energy Systems
Energies, 2023 This paper reviews the fundamentals of the thermoeconomic diagnosis theory. Thermoeconomic diagnosis is one of the main applications of the exergy cost theory used to identify the causes of additional resource consumption of a system due to ...
Antonio Valero +2 more
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Optimization and Thermoeconomics Research of a Large Reclaimed Water Source Heat Pump System [PDF]
The Scientific World Journal, 2013 This work describes a large reclaimed water source heat pump system (RWSHPS) and elaborates on the composition of the system and its design principles.
Zi-ping Zhang, Fang-hui Du
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Thermoeconomic Analysis in Advanced Cogeneration Systems in Buildings
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2022 In this work thermoeconomics is applied to a central thermal system covering three buildings that consists of a cogeneration engine, an aerothermal heat pump and a natural gas condensing boiler.
A. Picallo-Perez +5 more
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Biofuels Analysis Based on the THDI Indicator of Sustainability
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2021 Energy resources, and their management, represent an open ongoing problem of our present days. An increasing interest in the analysis of the limits of fossil fuels’ use, and their availability, is growing in order to find solutions to the undesired ...
Umberto Lucia, Giulia Grisolia
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