Emergy synthesis is a method employing emergy algebra for combining the constituent elements of separate materials or abstract entities into a single or unified entity or system. The conception of synthesis is formally analogous to the concept used by electronic engineers (see for example Chan p. 2), but is primarily used by ecological engineers at an extended scale and applied not only to electronic energetics but also ecological energetics and economic energetics.
The term 'emergy synthesis' was originally coined by Dr. David M. Scienceman, and later developed by Howard T. Odum and colleagues at the University of Florida - most notably Dr. Mark Brown, the University of Maryland with Dr. David Tilley and Dr. Patrick Kangas, the United States EPA with Dr. Dan Campbell, UNICAMP in Brazil overseen by Dr. Enrique Ortega, and the University of Siena with Dr. Sergio Ulgiati. These institutions continue to evolve and propagate the emergy algebra and methodology.
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