The second law analysis of natural gas behaviour within a vortex tube

Thermal Science

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1079-1092

  Kargaran, Mahyar ^a   Arabkoohsar, Ahmad ^b   Hagighat Hosini, Seyed Javad ^c   Farzaneh Kord, Vahideh ^d   Farzaneh Gord, Mahmood ^a  

^a SHAHROOD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Energy recovery; Natural gas; Natural gas pressure reduction system; The second law analysis; Vortex tube

Indexed keywords

AIR; COLD WORKING; ENTROPY; GASES; HOT WORKING; NATURAL GAS; ORIFICES; SEPARATION; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

ENERGY RECOVERY; ENERGY SEPARATIONS; ENTROPY GENERATION; GAS PRESSURES; GAS STREAMS; NATURAL GAS PRESSURE REDUCTION SYSTEM; PRESSURE REDUCTION SYSTEMS; THE SECOND LAW ANALYSE; TUBE LENGTH;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84890542761     PISSN: 03549836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2298/TSCI110505082F     Document Type: Article

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