A Sankey diagram says more than 1000 pie charts
The below Sankey diagram is from OECD/IEA’s World Energy Outlook 2014 report. It shows Nigeria’s oil production
Flows depict average daily production rates in 2013. Unit of flows is in ‘kb/d’ [guess that is 1000 barrels/day]. Check out the flow of ‘estimated stolen’ and ‘smuggled crude export’… wow!
The Sankey diagram-like graph shows the sequence of events in the criminal justice system.
Note: There are no numbers, and the widths of the colored arrows are similar. I guess it is safe to assume that this is a schematic diagram only and does not represent real numbers.
Liked that Sankey diagram of the human circulatory system (blood flow in the human body) made by CMGlee. This image is part of the Wikipedia article on the circulatory system. Oxygenated blood (red) runs through the arteries, and back to the heart through the veins (blue). Flows depict the “approximate relative percentages of cardiac output delivered to major organ systems”
Didn’t know my brain only required 14%, but well…
The Spanish island of Minorca (Spanish: Menorca) is part of the Balearic islands archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. Less crowded than Mallorca, and more tranquil than party location Ibiza, this island is popular for family holidays.
The Strategic Directorate of Menorca (Directrius Estratègiques de Menorca, DEM) has recently published this Sankey diagram depicting the energy flows of the island in 2013.
Flows are in MWh. Primary energy input was 2.72 mio MWh in 2013, of which 1.56 mio MWh were used, while 1.92 mio MWh were losses. (difference was exported). Labels are in Catalan.
The energy visual is different from others that I have shown on this blog before: The island is almost entirely depending on petroleum as energy source. Maritime and air transport consumes a large part, as does the services sector (hotels). Industry sector is a rather small consumer.
You can find a report in Spanish with a similar Sankey diagram here.
A Sankey diagram of O2 contamination during pressure water scrubbing from a paper on ‘Oxygen Removal during Biogas Upgrading using iron-based Adsorbents’ by Toni Raabe of DBI – Gastechnologisches Institut gGmbH Freiberg in Germany.
Flows of methane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and oxygen are shown in vol-%. The flow rate (in m³ per hour) is given in a small table at each stage of the process chain (biomethane-process chain via pressure water scrubbing).
From a paper on ‘Exergy analysis and optimization of a biomass gasification, solid oxide fuel cell and micro gas turbine hybrid system’ by C. Bang-Møller, M. Rokni, B. Elmegaard (Section of Thermal Energy Systems, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark) published in Energy 36 (2011) 4740-4752
This Sankey diagram of the energy flows (values in kJ/s) is for the SOFC reference case. The wet and dry biomass flows are evaluated using lower heating values, higher heating value (HHV) basis in parentheses.
A hand-drawn Sankey diagram by @marcecheverri on Twitter… Get out those felt-tip pens!
Diagrama Sankey AKT Motos #gaia #sostenibilidad #ifu @GaiaAmbiente pic.twitter.com/pzIkYYCjf2
— Marcela Echeverri R (@marcecheverri) 1 October 2015
The Laboratory of Energy Systems Research at Lithuanian Energy Institute (LEI) works on the country’s energy systems and advises policy makers. Here is their diagram of main fuels and energy flows in Lithuania in 2013. Unit is ktoe.
