Performance of a four-reservoir chemical potential transformer with irreversible mass transfer and mass leakage

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 8-9, 2007, Pages 1534-1542

  Xia, Dan ^a   Chen, Lingen ^a   Sun, Fengrui ^a  

^a NAVAL UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

Coefficient of performance; Finite time thermodynamics; Finite rate mass transfer; Four reservoir chemical potential transformer; Generalized thermodynamic optimization; Mass leakage; Rate of energy pumping

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

CHEMICAL POTENTIAL TRANSFORMERS; COEFFICIENT OF PERFORMANCE (COP); FINITE TIME THERMODYNAMICS; RATE OF ENERGY PUMPING;

ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 33846565798     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2006.09.024     Document Type: Article

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