Sentences with word «exergy»

From an straight out quantitative entropy and / or exergy analysis of fixed infrastructure non mobile applications — solar, wind and hydro are vastly superior to anything out there.

Below the systems level is the entropy and exergy level.

Some of their fallacies are: confusion between exergy and energy, between relative and absolute humidity, failure to use moving average, and accepting artifacts of incorrect computer models as scientific results.

Modified ecological footprint accounting and analysis based on embodied exergy — a case study of the Chinese society 1981 — 2001.

Design to maximize exergy; use passive solar and natural ventilation instead of electricity and fossil fuels.

The iPhone, on the other had, has fabulous exergy; it uses the highest quality energy in very small quantities.

Thinking about exergy could be one of the most important things architects and designers do if we are going to get off fossil fuels.

259 Thomas L E said, «From an straight out quantitative entropy and / or exergy analysis of fixed infrastructure non mobile applications — solar, wind and hydro are vastly superior to anything out there.

In order to account for the characteristic features of cascading use, wood researcher Michael Risse applied the holistic life cycle approach and analyzed the exergy of all materials used, the internal recycling processes, and the consumption of other primary resources, such as the forest land areas required.

In order to study the different configurations of RWH, the following methodologies were used: exergy analysis and exergetic efficiency analysis to determine resource consumption and efficiency; life cycle assessment (LCA) to identify environmental impacts; life cycle costing (LCC) to find economic feasibility, and data envelopment analysis (DEA) to identify the frontiers of best - practice towards sustainability.

Your «quantitative entropy and / or exergy analysis» may trump all that.

exergy the maximum amount of energy that under given (ambient) thermodynamic conditions can be converted into any other form or energy; also known as availability or work potential

That is a fundamental difference to reducing energy down to an exergy - factor of zero, what you do with energy losses during heating or cooling a building.

I still remember Robert Bean's talk from Summer Camp last year about «exergy» and your article on the matter «Must the Three Little Pigs Die?»

If we look at the embodied energy, the exergy and the operating energy, the basic lesson for iPhones and houses are the same: Take care of it and make it last.

From an exergy efficiency perspective, building technologies which rely on solar, wind and biomass energy sources, coupled to thermally efficient envelopes, appropriate fenestration strategies [where we put what kind and size of windows] and natural ventilation / cooling are truly more elegant than «cutting butter with a chainsaw.»

More technically, we have to look at its embodied energy, its operating energy, its exergy and its durability, and wrap it all together in a life cycle assessment.