China useful work and exergy analysis data: 1971-2030

This dataset contains the base datasets and mapping process used to undertake the 1971-2030 China exergy analysis for the Applied Energy journal article at this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.05.082. The datasets sets out the mapping (from primary energy to useful work categories), the task-level exergy efficiencies (i.e. the second law thermodynamic efficiencies that convert from primary exergy to useful work), and the detailed results (i.e. task-level values of useful work) for the 1971-2010 data period.