1 Exergy and Possible Applications Zhang Lixiao 11/14/2015

2 Questions?  What is real resource or wealthy ? -Available energy  How to interpret the concept of scarcity ? -Irreversibility

3 Let there be a series of thermal reservoirs. W R is the reversible (maximum) obtainable work between any two temperatures. Past Memory Temperature T* T1T1 T2T2 WRWR QHQH QCQC

4 Maximum attainable work

5 The general concept of exergy In 1953 the term exergy was suggested by Z. Rant to denote “technical working capacity”. A complete definition was given by H.D.Baehr in Exergy is that part of energy that is convertible into all other forms of energy. Exergy is a measurement of how far a certain system deviates from a state of equilibrium with its environment (Wall,1977). According to Szargut et al. (1988) "exergy is the amount of work obtainable when some matter is brought to a state of thermodynamic equilibrium with the common components of the natural surroundings’’.

6 Some remarks  Contrast is the source of action and depletion of contrast is the creator of time. Exergy is the physical value of contrast.  Contrast is everywhere: Dark/Light, Cold/Hot, Woman/Man, Yin/Yang, Mother Earth/Father Sun, Good/Evil, God/Satan, Life/Death,...  Energy and matter cannot be created, destroyed, produced or consumed.

7 Possible applications Buffering capacity Resource Exergy Environ- mental impact Exergy as the trinity of resource, buffering capacity and environmental impact

8 Second Law analysis of a real process

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10 Resource accounting-wall School On global scale -G. Wall & M. Gong(2000), "On Exergetics, Economics and Desalination", Encyclopedia of Desalination and Water Resources (DESWARE), EOLSS Publishers, Oxford -CHEN, G. Q.(2005). Exergy consumption of the earth. Ecological Modelling184(2-4), HERMANN, W. A.(2006). Quantifying global exergy resources. Energy31(12),

11 Exergy budget of the earth

12 On state scale

13 On sectoral scale

14 Exergy as ecological indicator-Jorgenson School The biggest asset of ecosystem exergy analysis is that it can measure the increase in disorder in ecosystems associated with human environmental impact. Wagendorp et al. (2001) proposed to use the ecosystem exergy concept as the theoretical basis for selecting indicators of the land use impact category in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).

15 Ecosystem exergy concept Four key elements:  Ecosystems are open systems that receive external exergy fluxes (mainly solar exergy);  Ecosystems use part of that external exergy to increase their internal exergy level in terms of biomass, structure and information (order from disorder)  Ecosystems increase and maintain their capability to build up order through a process of learning and memorizing by genetic selection and transfer (order from order)  Ecosystems with high exergy level are more successful in dissipating external exergy flows; it means that they are better buffered and thus have higher stability

16 Exergy analysis of waste emissions- Rosen School

17 How to calculate the exergy?  Is not so important compared to how to define a system boundary!  Not very difficulty but very complicated!  Vast references can help you finish your work once you catch the philosophy of exergy!

18 Thanks for your attentions!