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 is 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 & 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 discussion 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.
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
Masanori Shukuya is Professor at Department of Restoration Ecology and Built Environment and Graduate School of Environmental and Information Studies, Tokyo City University (TCU), Japan.
The ongoing projects at his Laboratory of Building Envirl#*
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