An Economics-Based Second Law Efficiency

Second Law efficiency is a useful parameter for characterizing the energy requirements of a system in relation to the limits of performance prescribed by the Laws of Thermodynamics. However, since energy costs typically represent less than 50% of the overall cost of product for many large-scale plan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mistry, Karan Hemant, Lienhard, John H.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: MDPI AG 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81315
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2901-0638