Exergy

This book provides detailed and up-to-date evaluations in different areas written by academics with experience in their fields. It is anticipated that this book will make a scientific contribution to exergy workers, researchers, academics, PhD students, and other scientists in both the present and the future.

The theme of the book is that one cannot talk about energy’s impact on our physical world without the language of both exergy and entropy, including the dual nature of the latter, and that understanding this dual nature is the key to sustainable order creation in the renewable energy era. This book aims to provide a scientific foundation/understanding on the necessity and benefits of energy transition as well as a platform for scientists/engineers for disseminating their original research findings and their scholarship on literature review on energy/entropy/exergy.

Many people, professionals and non-professionals alike, recognize that it is of critical importance to solve global energy and environmental issues. For this purpose, it is essential to have a scientific understanding of what is meant by the “energy” issue is and the “environmental” issue. The concept of “exergy” is a scientific concept that exactly fits.

This book will provide and enrich the state of the art in advanced energy systems, including energy conversion and management. All the chapters cover a broad range of disciplines, which are correlated in terms of the efforts toward efficient energy systems. In addition, the correlation between energy and exergy, and their understanding, are believed to be very important to improve energy efficiency and guarantee better energy quality.