Exergetic Life Cycle Assessment: A Review

被引:17
作者
Nwodo, Martin N. [1 ]
Anumba, Chimay J. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Florida, Coll Design Construct & Planning, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
关键词
exergy; life cycle assessment; sustainability; LCA; review; ASSESSMENT ELCA; ENVIRONMENTAL-IMPACT; ASSESSMENT LCA; ENERGY; SUSTAINABILITY; WASTE; CONSUMPTION; RESOURCE; SYSTEMS; DESIGN;
D O I
10.3390/en13112684
中图分类号
TE [石油、天然气工业]; TK [能源与动力工程];
学科分类号
0807 ; 0820 ;
摘要
Exergy is important and relevant in many areas of study such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), sustainability, energy systems, and the built environment. With the growing interest in the study of LCA due to the awareness of global environmental impacts, studies have been conducted on exergetic life cycle assessment for resource accounting. The aim of this paper is to review existing studies on exergetic life cycle assessment to investigate the state-of-the-art and identify the benefits and opportunity for improvement. The methodology used entailed an in-depth literature review, which involved an analysis of journal articles collected through a search of databases such as Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus, and Google Scholar. The selected articles were reviewed and analyzed, and the findings are presented in this paper. The following key conclusions were reached: (a) exergy-based methods provide an improved measure of sustainability, (b) there is an opportunity for a more comprehensive approach to exergetic life cycle assessment that includes life cycle emission, (c) a new terminology is required to describe the combination of exergy of life cycle resource use and exergy of life cycle emissions, and (d) improved exergetic life cycle assessment has the potential to solve characterization and valuation problems in the LCA methodology.
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