In the present work, a waste heat power generation system is analyzed based on the criteria with and without considering the heat/exergy loss to the environment. For the criteria without considering the heat/exergy loss to the environment, the first- and second-law efficiencies display different...

The viscous dissipation effect on the thermodynamic performance of the curved square microchannels in laminar flow is numerically investigated. The classical Navier–Stokes equations are adopted; aniline and ethylene glycol are selected as the working fluids. The results show that the heat...

The performance of an Isopropanol–Acetone–Hydrogen (IAH) chemical heat pump system is investigated in terms of enthalpy efficiency (COP) and exergy efficiency, in which the exothermic and endothermic reactions take place in the gas phase. The increase of reflux ratio, temperature of...

In the present work, the entransy and entransy dissipation are defined from the thermodynamic point of view. It is shown that the entransy is a state variable and can be employed to describe the second law of thermodynamics. For heat conduction, a principle of minimum entransy dissipation is...

A variational principle for heat conduction is formulated which results in the steady state heat conduction equation established from the Fourier law. Furthermore based on the thermodynamics in terms of entransy a more general functional is defined for incompressible fluids. We show that...

Based on the entransy dissipation theory, the multi-parameter optimization design of recuperator is conducted in an Isopropanol–Acetone–Hydrogen (IAH) chemical heat pump system. The performance of the heat pump system can be improved significantly through the multi-parameter optimization,...

In the present work, a multi-parameter optimization approach of Isopropanol–Acetone–Hydrogen (IAH) chemical heat pump is developed based on the entransy theory. In the optimization process, the total low-temperature heat consumed by the heat pump system generally decreases while the...

A multi-objective optimization of main heat exchanger in a regenerative Brayton cycle system is carried out based on entransy dissipation. The best trade-off between the entransy dissipation numbers caused by heat transfer and fluid friction is achieved in the Pareto optimal solutions, the...