Recently, exergy has become a new distinct discipline for system design, analysis, optimization and performance evaluation, and its use has expanded drastically. In this regard, exergy analysis appears to be a significant tool in: (a) addressing the impact of energy resource utilization on the environment, (b) furthering the goal of more efficient energy resource utilization, (c) determining locations, types and true magnitudes of wastes and losses, (d) revealing whether or not and how much it is possible to design more efficient energy systems by reducing the inefficiencies, (e) providing a sustainable development as a result of sustainably supply of energy resources, and (f) distinguishing the highquality and low-quality energy resources.

This is a timely course to serve academia and industry to provide further information and encourage people working in the area of energy to conduct exergy analysis for system design, analysis, optimization and performance evaluation in large number of applications ranging from power plants to fuel cells and from renewables to geothermal district heating systems.

The deadline for registration is 5 June 2008. Although the course language is Turkish, course notes and presentation documents will be available in English.

Further information is available  here.