The Sankey Diagram in Energy and Material Flow Management

By Mario Schmidt. 2008

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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ggalluvial: Layered Grammar for Alluvial Plots (2020, methodology): “Visualizations of flow processes have long encoded magnitudes as ribbon widths, constituting a type called Sankey diagrams (Schmidt, 2008).”
Tracing Primary PM2.5 emissions via Chinese supply chains (2015, methodology): “Supply chain analysis has become an important tool in addressing these questions (Schmidt 2008a, 2008b, Skelton et al 2011).”
Global life cycle releases of engineered nanomaterials (2013, methodology): “Finally, we use Sankey diagrams to visualize the pathways of ENMs, which are widely practiced in the field of industrial ecology in general, and in material flow analysis (MFA) in particular (Hashimoto and Moriguchi 2004; Schmidt 2008; Du and Graedel 2011; Suh and Yee 2011; Reck and Graedel 2012).”
Identifying primary energy requirements in structural path analysis: A case study of China 2012 (2017, background): “Structural path analysis for embodied energy flows 9 Embodied energy flows throughout the entire supply chains in the Sankey diagram 10 [64-67] can intuitively present where the primary energy inputs from extraction sectors 11 have gone (production attribution), and where the energy uses embodied in”
Sankey-Diagram-based insights into the hydrogen economy of today (2016, background): “They can also be a helpful instrument in the business sector, since production systems, including their technical and economical interrelationships, are becoming increasingly complex and therefore must be represented in an intelligible way [12].”
The efficient use of energy: Tracing the global flow of energy from fuel to service (2010, methodology): “The Sankey diagram, first used by the Irish engineer Riall Sankey in 1898 (Schmidt, 2008), has become an important graphical tool for mapping the chains of energy flow.”