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Thermodynamic analysis and thermodynamic efficiency of chemical reactors.

Tsirlin AM, Kazakov V, Kan NM, Trushkov VV

Program System Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, set Botik, Perejaslavl-Zalesky, Russia 152020.

In this paper, conditions of minimal dissipation for processes occurring in chemical reactors with a given duration and a given degree of transformation are obtained. It is demonstrated that the derived entropy production can be used to construct the space of realizable (thermodynamically feasible) regimes of a chemical reactor.

Published 13 February 2006 in J Phys Chem B Condens Matter Mater Surf Interfaces Biophys, 110(5): 2338-42.
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