The Open Environmental Engineering Journal
2010, 3 : 21-32Published online 2010 March 4. DOI: 10.2174/1874829501003010021
Publisher ID: TOENVIEJ-3-21
On Exergy and Sustainable Development in Environmental Engineering
Department of Energy Engineering, Gotland University, Sweden.
ABSTRACT
Humankind faces the most serious challenge ever - sustainable development. A new paradigm based on respect of nature and awareness of natural mechanisms is needed. The concept of exergy and exergy based methods offers a unique potential to support this. Applications to real problems and possible solutions related to environmental engineering are presented.