Xia, Dan; Chen, Lingen; Sun, Fengrui; Wu, Chih - In: Applied Energy 84 (2007) 1, pp. 56-65
A new cyclic model for the behaviour of a four-reservoir endoreversible chemical pump is proposed. The optimal relation between the coefficient of performance and the rate of energy pumping is derived by using finite-time thermodynamics or thermodynamic optimization. The optimal times of the...