Entropy Generation Analysis of Desalination Technologies [PDF]
Entropy, 2011 Increasing global demand for fresh water is driving the development and implementation of a wide variety of seawater desalination technologies. Entropy generation analysis, and specifically, Second Law efficiency, is an important tool for illustrating ...
John H. Lienhard V +5 more
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Entropy Generation Analysis of a Thermal Cracking Reactor [PDF]
ACS Omega, 2021 The present paper analyzes the entropy generation of a tabular thermal cracking reactor with propane feed, as well as the molecular mechanism of the reaction. The reaction model is obtained and the flow, reaction, momentum, and energy are determined with knowledge of the outer wall temperature.
Peyman Roudgar Saffari +3 more
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Entropy Generation Analysis of Wildfire Propagation [PDF]
Entropy, 2017 Entropy generation is commonly applied to describe the evolution of irreversible processes, such as heat transfer and turbulence. These are both dominating phenomena in fire propagation.
Elisa Guelpa, Vittorio Verda
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Entropy generation analysis of electrodialysis [PDF]
Desalination, 2017 Electrodialysis (ED) is a desalination technology with many applications. In order to better understand how the energetic performance of this technology can be improved, the various losses in the system should be quantified and characterized. This can be
Chehayeb, Karim Malek, Lienhard, John H.
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Entropy Generation Analysis and Performance Comparison of a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell with an Embedded Porous Pipe Inside of a Mono-Block-Layer-Build Geometry and a Planar Geometry with Trapezoidal Baffles [PDF]
EntropyAn analysis of entropy generation and a performance comparison are carried out for a solid oxide fuel cell with an embedded porous pipe in the air supply channel of a mono-block-layer-build geometry (MOLB-PPA SOFC) and a planar geometry with trapezoidal ...
J. J. Ramírez-Minguela +7 more
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Entropy Generation Analysis of Laminar Flows of Water-Based Nanofluids in Horizontal Minitubes under Constant Heat Flux Conditions [PDF]
Entropy, 2018 During the last decade, second law analysis via entropy generation has become important in terms of entropy generation minimization (EGM), thermal engineering system design, irreversibility, and energy saving.
Mehrdad Karimzadehkhouei +5 more
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Entropy Generation Analysis and Thermodynamic Optimization of Jet Impingement Cooling Using Large Eddy Simulation [PDF]
Entropy, 2019 In this work, entropy generation analysis is applied to characterize and optimize a turbulent impinging jet on a heated solid surface. In particular, the influence of plate inclinations and Reynolds numbers on the turbulent heat and fluid flow properties
Florian Ries +4 more
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Entropy Generation Minimization Analysis of Active Magnetic Regenerators [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2017 A performance assessment of active magnetocaloric regenerators using entropy generation minimization is presented. The model consists of the Brinkman-Forchheimer equation to describe the fluid flow and coupled energy equations for the fluid and solid ...
PAULO V. TREVIZOLI, JADER R. BARBOSA JR
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Entropy Analysis in Pipe Flow Subjected to External Heating [PDF]
Entropy, 2003 : In the present study, heat transfer and entropy analysis for flow through a pipe system is considered. The Reynolds number and the pipe wall temperature effects on entropy distribution and total entropy generation in the pipe are investigated ...
Iyad Talal Al-Zaharnah
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Numerical Study on Entropy Generation of the Multi-Stage Centrifugal Pump
Entropy, 2022 The energy loss of the multi-stage centrifugal pump was investigated by numerical analysis using the entropy generation method with the RNG k-ε turbulence model.
Baoxin Fan +3 more
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