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Record Nr.

UNINA9910437779803321

Autore

Shukuya Masanori

Titolo

Exergy : theory and applications in the built environment / / Masanori Shukuya

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Springer, 2013

ISBN

9781283911061

128391106X

9781447145738

1447145739

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (373 p.)

Collana

Green energy and technology, , 1865-3529

Disciplina

621.042

Soggetti

Exergy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 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 and 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 discussions 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.