aInstitute of Marine Propulsion Plants Operation, Maritime Academy of Szczecin, Waly Chrobrego 1-2, 70500 Szczecin, Poland
bInstitute for Energy Engineering, Technische Universität Berlin, Marchstr. 18, 10587 Berlin, Germany
Abstract:
Splitting the exergy destruction into endogenous/exogenous and unavoidable/avoidable parts represents a new development in the exergy analysis of energy conversion systems. This splitting improves the accuracy of exergy analysis, improves our understanding of the thermodynamic inefficiencies and facilitates the improvement of a system.
An absorption refrigeration machine is used here as an application example. This refrigeration machine represents the most complex type of a refrigeration machine, in which the sum of physical and chemical exergy is used for each material stream.