The Thermoeconomic Environment Cost Indicator (iex-TEE) as a One-Dimensional Measure of Resource Sustainability

This paper presents a conceptual development of sustainability evaluation, through an exergy-based indicator, by using the new concept Thermoeconomic Environment (TEE). The accounting methods here considered as background are Extended Exergy Accounting (EEA), which can be used to quantify exergy cost externalities like labor, monetary inputs, and pollutants, Cumulative Consumption (CExC), consumption primary resources embodied in final product or service. bioresource stock replacement is presented, highlighting how framework TEE offers option for evaluating products biological systems. indicator defined based on all directly indirectly consumed system, equivalent implied production process product.