Calculating the chemical exergy of materials
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19467367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charalampos Michalakakis (0000-0002-9516-6585, Department of Engineering University of Cambridge Cambridge UK), Jeremy Fouillou (Department of Engineering University of Cambridge Cambridge UK), Richard C Lupton (0000-0001-8622-3085, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies (CSCT) University of Bath Bath UK), Ana González Hernández (0000-0002-2577-7786, Emerson Madrid Spain), Jonathan M Cullen (0000-0003-4347-5025, Department of Engineering University of Cambridge Cambridge UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 274-287 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Industrial Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1088-1980 • E-ISSN: 1530-9290 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jiec.13120 |
| PMID | 41994849 |
| OpenAlex | W3147746399 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 39 |
Modern society requires large amounts of materials which lead to emissions of greenhouse gases. Effective climate policy should focus on not just energy efficiency but material efficiency as well. Exergy analysis is a powerful metric used to identify opportunities for efficiency improvement in industrial resource flow systems. Exergy offers a single unified measure of energy and material resources and indicates the real thermodynamic value of these resources, but the method suffers from a lack of comprehensive specific material chemical exergy datasets. The variety of different materials used in the global resource supply chain necessitates a combination of exergy calculation approaches. These approaches are combined into a single exergy calculator tool with over 1400 substances in the dataset. The chemical exergy values computed for key materials typically differ by less than 10% from values estimated in literature. The calculator is used in a case study of the upstream global material supply chain in 2013. The exergy resource map is visualized in a Sankey diagram and is found to be 72% resource efficient with 170 EJ of combined exergy losses and destruction. Further analysis is conducted on the refining, utilities, and industry sectors which are found to be 72%, 44%, and 50% resource efficient, respectively. Their combined losses and destruction are 15, 101, and 54 EJ, respectively. This study and the calculator developed provide a comprehensive dataset of chemical exergy values for a wide range of materials and can be applied in a variety of studies using exergy analysis
Business · Economics · Environmental economics · Exergy · Exergy efficiency · Greenhouse gas · Industrial ecology · Material efficiency · Process engineering · Resource Efficiency · Supply chain · Sustainability · Computer Science · Engineering · Environmental Science · Process Optimization and Integration · Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis · Thermodynamic and Exergetic Analyses of Power and Cooling Systems · Ecology
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| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |