Exergy Examples for the Chemical Engineering Classroom

This work explores several examples of how the thermodynamic concept of exergy can be used in the chemical engineering classroom. Examples include using exergy to determine thermodynamic and monetary value of utilities, to identify better heat exchanger network designs, to aid in work-heat integration applications such as heat pumps and organic Rankine cycles, to scope out realistic energy integration cases, and to assess how well chemical potential is being used and managed. The examples are presented in one connected context that makes it easy to see how exergy analyses can be useful across many aspects of chemical and energy industry supply chains.