CH ENGR 102A Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Carnot Heat Engine, Carnot Cycle, Thermodynamics
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As can be seen in figure 1, heat is only allowed to leave the separator at a temperature. T, enter an ideal carnot cycle, which releases heat to the environment, and generates some work which enters the separator. That work, combined with additional work that enters the separator, so as to satisfy its energetic needs for separation, allows computation of the ideal work. This separator type is similar to the separators used for the gas separation tasks typical of the considered case study (membrane separators, pressure swing adsorbers, etc. ) A carnot engine is coupled to separator units, so as to calculate the ideal work of separation, which is later used in the ideas formulation for the separator units. Consider also that the separator is coupled to a power engine operating between t and t . Consider a separator operating at steady-state, having a single outlet heat port att t .
