JP Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 41 - 59
(February 2010)
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SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT IN THERMAL ENGINEERING
Naim H. Afgan
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Abstract: The development of sustainability concept in thermal engineering has become a driving force for the development of new energy strategy in the world. This development reflects the future need for the adoption of energy system structure, which is in the compliance with long-term strategy of our civilisation. The sustainability concept includes harmonised constrains of economical, ecological, social and resource aspect of global development.
The thermal engineering is the basic engineering field for the energy system design, operation, diagnostic and evaluation. The sustainability concept of energy system is defined by the respective criteria derived from the basic laws of thermal engineering. These criteria include: efficiency assessment, environment assessment, resource use assessment and social aspect of energy strategy.
The sustainability concept assessment is demonstrated for several energy systems as the examples for the application of the decision-making procedure with deficiency of information. The attention is devoted to the following examples: New and renewable energy system assessment, Clean air technology assessment, and Heat Exchanger design assessment. It was shown that the sustainability assessment procedure reflects complexity of the system under consideration and enlightens different rating of systems under consideration reflecting mutual relation between criteria. |
Keywords and phrases: sustainability, thermal engineering, new and renewable energy, clean air technology. |
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