Title: Analysing the effects on the atmosphere of exergy changes due to exhaust-gas emissions

Authors: Yongan Ao; Yueren Wang; Marc A. Rosen

Addresses: Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering College, Shenyang Jianzhu University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110168, China. ' Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering College, Shenyang Jianzhu University, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110168, China. ' Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, 2000 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa, Ontario, L1H 7K4, Canada

Abstract: The exergy change of the surroundings of exhaust-gas emitting ports, and its probable effects on the atmosphere, are investigated and the current stable state changing point of the atmosphere is determined. The potential for doing work is described and the effects of the amount of exhaust gas on the atmosphere are studied through calculation and analysis of an exergy-change function, which is nonlinear and dynamic. This function accounts for the flow direction of the exhaust gas in the absence of a local wind. It appears that exergy can be used as a state function to describe the change, the stability and the order of a system.

Keywords: exergy analysis; exhaust gases; atmosphere; exergy change function; nonlinear; exhaust emissions; air pollution.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEX.2012.045057

International Journal of Exergy, 2012 Vol.10 No.1, pp.21 - 33

Received: 15 Apr 2011
Accepted: 29 May 2011
Published online: 24 Jan 2012 *

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