Environment, Ecology & Exergy

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Growing concerns about the environmental and ecological implications of industrial and other systems, as well as the impact of energy resource utilisation, are fostering increasing interest in environmental and ecological protection. Such understanding is crucial to advancing the quest for a cleaner environment and sustainability. New approaches to ecology and the environment that provide an engineering perspective and a scientific basis to activities are of particular interest. The integration of the thermodynamic quantity exergy with the environment and ecology provides a novel approach that offers significant potential to improve environmental and ecological management. A brief summary is presented here of existing analysis techniques which integrate exergy with ecological and environmental factors.

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Preface; Motivation; Background: Society, Sustainability, Environment & Energy; An Introduction to the Environment, Ecology & Exergy,; History of Exergy & Environmental & Ecological Methods; Exergy; Suitable Reference Environments for Environmental & Ecological Assessments; Exergy & the Environment; Exergy & Ecology; Correlations between Exergy & Other Indicators of Environmental Impact; Exergy-Based Environmental & Ecological Methods; Extending Exergy, Environment & Ecology Relations to Economics; Exergy Applications; Exergy & Environment Applications; Exergy & Ecology Applications; Assessing Earths Resources Using Exergy; Assessing Polluted Materials; Allocating Carbon Dioxide Emissions for Cogeneration Using Exergy; Assessing Environmental Impacts of Aerospace Operations with Exergy.