Critical energy flow paths for SEA models

The Sino–US trade war has prompted China to re-examine the development of manufacturing, while the energy crisis restricts such development. Scientifically planning industrial energy allocation is important for supporting industrial transformation and the upgrading of manufacturing. The embodied energy flow in China’s manufacturing was investigated by reconstructing the energy flow network; taking a systems perspective, a fine-grained analysis of the emerging patterns and evolution of these flows in the internal and external manufacturing industries was performed, thus providing useful insights for energy planning. The results show that in the internal and external networks of Chinese manufacturing, most of the embodied energy convergence and transmission is concentrated in a few industries Moreover, it is clear that industries with stronger embodied energy convergence and conductivity are generally more likely to be associated with industries with weak convergence and conductivity. Preferential selection is an important mechanism for the generation of embodied energy flow paths. The choices of the embodied energy flow paths of various industries exhibit the preference that ‘the rich get richer,’ and newly generated flow paths are more likely to be chosen for connectivity to a path of strong convergence or conductivity. The embodied energy flow patterns of the internal network of manufacturing mainly include two-focus and multi-focus convergence patterns, while that of the external network of manufacturing is mainly a two-focus transmission pattern. Within in-edge networks, communities of high-end manufacturing have gathered most of the embodied energy, while in out-edge networks, communities of traditional manufacturing have been key in the transmission of embodied energy. The impacts of the internal and external network types, and of the in-edge and out-edge types on the stability of the embodied energy flow pattern are separate, and the embodied energy flow pattern is stable. Based on these findings, an ‘energy-related industrial cluster’ model is proposed here to aid in energy convergence and transmission, as well as to realize network cluster synergy.

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Factors Influencing Embodied Energy Trade between the Belt and Road Countries: A Gravity Approach

10.21203/rs.3.rs-476470/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Xiaoqi Sun ◽

Qing Shi

Keyword(s):

South Korea ◽

Gravity Model ◽

Energy Flow ◽

Decomposition Analysis ◽

Embodied Energy ◽

Flow Paths ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

Energy Trade ◽

Belt And Road ◽

The Belt And Road

Abstract Energy is a basic factor input embodied in the production of goods and services. The rapid growth of trade between Belt and Road countries calls for the study of bilateral embodied energy trade between them. Using the Eora input-output database in 2015, this paper accounts the embodied energy trade between Belt and Road countries, followed by an investigation of the factors influencing the embodied energy trade through a gravity model, which is different from the conventional decomposition analysis. We find that the main bilateral embodied flow paths are from South Korea to China, China to South Korea, Singapore to China, Ukraine to Russia, and Malaysia to Singapore. 5% embodied energy flow paths account for 80% of the total bilateral embodied energy flow volume between Belt and Road countries. The gravity model results indicate that GDP per capita and population are the key drivers of bilateral embodied energy trade, while the industrial share of GDP is negatively related to the trade. Energy intensity, especially that of importing countries, plays a crucial role in reducing the bilateral embodied energy flow. These results are useful in the policymaking of sustainable development for the Belt and Road Initiative.

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Operation optimization of an integrated energy system considering multiple redundant energy flow paths

Emerging Developments in the Power and Energy Industry ◽

10.1201/9780429295300-38 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 301-307

Author(s):

Jianlin Yang ◽

Mingxing Guo ◽

Fei Fei ◽

Aili Pang ◽

Qifan Niu

Keyword(s):

Energy Flow ◽

Energy System ◽

Flow Paths ◽

Operation Optimization ◽

Integrated Energy System

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Magnetic field transport from AGN cores to jets, lobes, and the IGM

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union ◽

10.1017/s1743921309031172 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 4 (S259) ◽

pp. 499-508 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Philipp P. Kronberg

Keyword(s):

Energy Flow ◽

Energy Transport ◽

Magnetic Energy ◽

Galaxy Cluster ◽

Particle Beam ◽

X Rays ◽

Plasma Properties ◽

Flow Paths ◽

Poynting Flux ◽

Cluster Environment

AbstractI describe various stages of energy flow along an extragalactic jet, which subsequently evolves into an extended lobe which is visible in radio and X-rays. The sizes of the lobes vary from kpc scales to several megaparsec, so that the largest lobes are clearly injecting back hole energy into the IGM on scales comparable with a galaxy-galaxy separation. This is sometimes loosely referred to as Black hole-IGM “feedback”. My talk begins with a well-formed jet, and avoids the complex and unclarified physics at less than a few Schwarzschild radii that cause the initial launching the jet.This presentation focuses on recent thinking and supercomputer simulations that appear to clarify the fundamental nature of these remarkable jets and lobes. The energy transport process appears to be electrodynamic, rather than particle beam–driven. A new observational verification of a 1018 Ampère current in an actual jet is concordant with the predictions and simulations of poynting flux-dominated electromagnetic jets. In this model the current is tightly related to the BH mass and angular energy.The magneto-plasma properties of the lobes must obviously match to the jets which feed them. The “energy sink” phase is when BH energy is ultimately deposited on supra-galactic scales. The process from the BH to the lobe production happens with remarkable efficiency. The presence or absence of a galaxy cluster environment creates laboratory conditions that help to calibrate the energy flow paths, and the magnetic rigidity of these jet-lobe systems.I conclude by describing recent, sensitive radio observations on supra-cluster scales that test for final magnetic energy deposition - the “sink” phase - into the intergalactic medium.

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