A general exergy-based environmental impact index

Diaz-Mendez, Sosimo E.; Rodríguez-Lelis, J. M.; Hernández-Guerrero, Abel

doi:10.1007/s12206-011-0219-0

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“…It describes the positive effect of the system under examination on the surrounding environment, and its purpose is to reduce the environmental harms by decreasing the irreversibilities. It determines the positive effect of the collector on the surrounding environment and it assists to decrease the environmental impact by mitigating the irreversibilities of the system 49

f_{ei} = \frac{{\overset{ψ}{true}}_{dest, tot}}{\sum {\dot{X}}_{solar}},

where

{\dot{ψ}}_{italicdest, italictot}

and

{\dot{X}}_{solar}

reflect the total exergy destruction and exergy input to the system, accordingly.…”

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Thermo‐environmental investigation of solar parabolic dish‐assisted multi‐generation plant using different working fluids

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The present study investigates the performance of a multi-generation plant by integrating a parabolic dish solar collector to a steam turbine and absorption chiller producing electricity and process heat and cooling. Thermodynamic modeling of the proposed solar dish integrated multi-generation plant is conducted using engineering equation solver to investigate the effect of certain operating parameters on the performance of the integrated system. The performance of the solar integrated plant is evaluated and compared using three different heat transfer fluids, namely, supercritical carbon dioxide, pressurized water, and Therminol-VPI. The useful heat gain by collector is utilized to drive a Rankine cycle to evaluate the network output, rate of process heat, cooling capacity, overall energetic, and exergetic efficiencies as well as coefficient of performance. The results show that water is an efficient working fluid up to a temperature of 550 K, while Therminol-VPI performs better at elevated temperatures (630 K and above). Higher integrated efficiencies are linked with the lower inlet temperature and higher mass flow rates. The integrated system using pressurized water as a heat transfer fluid is capable of producing 1278 and 832 kW of power output and process heat, respectively, from input source of almost 6121 kW indicating overall energy and exergy efficiencies of 34.5% and 37.10%, respectively. Furthermore, multi-generation plant is evaluated to assess the exergy destruction rate and steam boiler is witnessed to have the major contribution of this loss followed by the turbine. The exergo-environmental analysis is carried out to evaluate the impact of the system on its surroundings. Exergo-environmental impact index, impact factor, impact coefficient, and impact improvement are evaluated against increase in the inlet temperature of the collector. The single-effect absorption cycle is observed to have the energetic and exergetic coefficient of performances of 0.86 and 0.422, for sCO 2 operating system, respectively, with a cooling load of 228 kW.

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