Ukidwe, Nandan U.; Bakshi, Bhavik R. - In: Energy 32 (2007) 9, pp. 1560-1592
This paper develops a thermodynamic input–output (TIO) model of the 1997 United States economy that accounts for the flow of cumulative exergy in the 488-sector benchmark economic input–output model in two different ways. Industrial cumulative exergy consumption (ICEC) captures the exergy of...