Understanding Electric Industrial Ecosystems through Exergy

摘要

The focus of this study is to enhance the way of thinking that human activities cannot be separated from the functioning of the entire system on Earth. Learning from Nature means to accept that the technical systems and processes involving energy conversion and matter transformation need to be linked to environment engineering. This paper adopts a dualist view, incorporating technical and environmental dimensions, to describe the applicability of exergy to electrical ecosystems, since industrial ecology permits an alternate view of human applications, related both to technical and environmental reference systems.