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dc.contributor.authorOladiran, M.T.
dc.contributor.authorMeyer, J.P.
dc.date.accessioned2011-12-06T09:23:54Z
dc.date.available2011-12-06T09:23:54Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier.citationOladiran, M.T. & Meyer, J.P. (2007) Energy and exergy analyses of energy consumptions in the industrial sector in South Africa, Applied Energy, Vol. 84, No.10, pp. 1056-1067en_US
dc.identifier.issn0306 2619
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10311/957
dc.description.abstractThe energy-utilization over a 10-year period (1994–2003) has been analysed for the South African industrial sector, which consumes more primary energy than any other sector of the economy. Four principal sub-sectors, namely iron and steel, chemical and petrochemical, mining and quarrying, and non-ferrous metals/non-metallic minerals were considered in this study. Primary-energy utilization data were used to calculate the weighted mean energy and exergy efficiencies for the sub-sectors and then overall values for the industrial sector were obtained. The results indicate that exergy efficiency is considerably lower than energy efficiency in all the sub-sectors, particularly in mining and quarrying processes, for which the values were approximately 83% and 16%, respectively. The performance of exergy utilization in the industrial sector can be improved by introducing various conservation strategies. Results from this study were compared with those for other countries.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevier http://www.elsevier.comen_US
dc.subjectEnergyen_US
dc.subjectExergyen_US
dc.subjectIndustrial energy-consumptionen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africa energy-utilizationen_US
dc.titleEnergy and exergy analyses of energy consumptions in the industrial sector in South Africaen_US
dc.typePublished Articleen_US
dc.linkhttp://www.doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2007.02.004en_US


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