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Sustainable Energy Development

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In order to reach the goals indicated by the sustainable energy development the efficiency in the energy conversion use has to meet several criterions [1]. The potential for the efficiency improvement is generally underestimated. Most of the energy conversion systems consider the efficiency improvement as a separate process and their analysis reflects only the potential improvement of the process but not the potential for the efficiency improvement obtained by an exergy analysis of the energy system. Fossil fuel energy resources use is mostly conversion to heat by the combustion processes. Since the combustion process is taking place at temperatures between 900 — 1300°C and over 40% of heat is used a low temperature heat, it is indispensable to take into consideration the thermodynamic assessment of the efficiency in order to bring in line energy conversion processes and energy demand to obtain the optimum fuel utilization.

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Afgan, N.H., da Graça Carvalho, M. (2000). Sustainable Energy Development. In: Sustainable Assessment Method for Energy Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4479-1_3

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