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In early 19th century, the design and construction of steam engines was an important step in the industrial revolution. Efforts to understand working of steam engine quantitatively laid the foundations of the science of thermodynamics.
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We are grateful to organizers of Bengaluru Humboldt Kolleg for allowing the second author (DGB) to present this paper. Finally, DGB recalls fondly Prof B B Parulekar of IIT Bombay Mechanical Engineering Department for teaching Refrigeration and Air Conditioning very fruitfully using the exergy concept. In fact, it was this strong memory which reminded him of exergy as very appropriate for today’s world, and he was pleasantly surprised to find that we are among many friends with this same consideration!
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Wall, G., Banhatti, D.G. (2013). Exergy: A Useful Concept for Ecology and Sustainability. In: Nautiyal, S., Rao, K., Kaechele, H., Raju, K., Schaldach, R. (eds) Knowledge Systems of Societies for Adaptation and Mitigation of Impacts of Climate Change. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36143-2_28
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