On the Negentropy Application in Thermoeconomics: A Fictitious or an Exergy Component Flow?

Authors : José SANTOS, Marco NASCİMENTO, Electo LORA, Arnaldo REYES

Pages : 163-176

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Publication Date : 2009-12-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The introduction of the negentropy in thermoeconomics represented a great advance in the discipline, since this magnitude allows quantifying the condenser product in a steam cycle plant, which was not possible before because the condenser is a dissipative component, whose product cannot be expressed in terms of exergy. However, most authors have been applying the negentropy as a fictitious flow, joined up with the exergy flow. This paper aims at opening a discussion about the procedure for negentropy application in thermoeconomics, by showing that: insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(i); the original procedure leads to some inconsistencies; and insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(ii);, a more recent approach takes all the negentropy advantages, without leading to inconsistencies, by applying the negentropy as a physical exergy component flow. This paper is an updated version of a paper published in the ECOS`08 proceedings. 
Keywords : thermoeconomics, negentropy, fictitious flow, exergy component