Sustainability | |
The Tenuous Use of Exergy as a Measure of Resource Value or Waste Impact | |
Kyrke Gaudreau1  Roydon A. Fraser2  | |
[1] Environment and Resource Studies, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada; E-Mail:;Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada; E-Mail: | |
关键词: exergy; resource value; waste impact; sustainability assessment; | |
DOI : 10.3390/su1041444 | |
来源: mdpi | |
【 摘 要 】
Exergy is a thermodynamic concept that has been widely promoted for assessing and improving sustainability, notably in the characterization of resources and wastes. Despite having many notable benefits, exergy is often misused by authors who tend to apply it as an intrinsic characteristic of an object (
【 授权许可】
CC BY
© 2009 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland.
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