Exergy : theory and applications in the built environment

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Exergy : theory and applications in the built environment

Masanori Shukuya

(Green energy and technology)

Springer, c2013

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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. The concept of 'energy' is a scientifically-well established concept, namely 'to be conserved'. Then the question is what is really consumed. Exergy: Theory and Applications in the Built Environment is dedicated to answer this fundamental question by discussing the theory of "exergy" and by demonstrating its use extensively to describe a variety of systems in particular for built-environmental conditioning. Our immediate environmental space works within the flow of energy and matter in an "exergy-entropy" process, and the built environment can be designed with these energy & environmental issues in mind. Exergy: Theory and Applications in the Built Environment introduces readers who are not familiar with thermodynamics to the concept of exergy with a variety of discussion on the built-environmental space such as heating, cooling, lighting, and others. Readers, including students, researchers, planners, architects and engineers, will obtain a better picture of a sustainable built-environment.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 Renewing Our View with the Concept of Exergy.- CHAPTER 2 Exergy-Entropy Process of Global Environmental System.- CHAPTER 3 Built-Environmental Systems.- CHAPTER 4 Theory for Closed Systems.- CHAPTER 5 Theory for Open Systems

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