Recently, we have introduced a new bioeconomic indicator in order to avoid the difficulties in evaluating the process and technologies for sustainability. In this paper, we wish to improve this new indicator for the analysis of sustainability. Indeed, the indicator has been based on the exergy...

The thermodynamic analysis of open systems is fundamental in engineering. For the open systems at their steady state, two apparently opposed principles for the rate of entropy production have been used: the minimum entropy production rate derived by Prigogine, used in the description of various...

How do macroscopic systems react when imposed to external forces? A recent analysis of Carnot’s theorem has pointed out that the systems do not convert all the inflow energy to work and dissipation, but that some energy will be incorporated to internal processes. These exergy flows appear as...

Recently, we have introduced a new bioeconomic indicator in order to avoid the difficulties in evaluating the process and technologies for sustainability. In this paper, we wish to improve this new indicator for the analysis of sustainability. Indeed, the indicator has been based on the exergy...