FP-LjubaMiljkovic-JeremyHuddleston
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Proposal
Group Members
- Jeremy Huddleston
- Ljuba Miljkovic
Description
The Global Energy Systems Navigator is an interactive map of the global flows of exergy through human systems, illustrating how the world uses exergy. It is intended for lay audiences, policy makers, and researchers alike: anyone who would like to better understand the complex mechanisms by which we convert natural energy resources in to end-uses.
The Energy Navigator tracks exergy through human energy systems. Exergy is a thermodynamic term that describes the useful portion of energy, the fraction of energy that can be used to do work. For example, gasoline can be burned to run an automobile engine; much of its energy can be used to do useful work and therefore gasoline is an exergetic fuel. By contrast, the heat produced by that engine is a form of energy, but has very little useful potential for work, and so has very little exergy. Tracking exergy, we can more clearly identify opportunities to increase the efficiency of the human energy system.
This project is a continuation of the midterm project (A3-LjubaMiljkovic) we completed several weeks ago. Please see the that page for a detailed description of this project. The extension includes a method of drilling down in quantitative representations of the carriers and transformations. Users will also be able to move "horizontally" among various carriers and transformations to obtain a quantitative understanding of the components that serve as inputs and outputs to each carrier and transformation. In addition, we will be adding data about the amount of carbon contained in the carriers and the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere during transformations. By correlating exergy and carbon, we obtain a clearer understanding of their relationship and of the opportunities for maximizing transformation efficiency and minimizing carbon release into the atmosphere.
Initial Problem Presentation
Image:Final Project Proposal.pdf
Midpoint Design Discussion
No slides were presented in class. You can see our progress here.
Final Deliverables
- Link to source code and executable
- Final Paper
- Final Poster
