The optimal performance for a class of generalized irreversible universal steady-flow heat-engine cycle models, consisting of two heating branches, two cooling branches and two adiabatic branches, and with losses due to heat-resistance, heat leaks and internal irreversibility was analyzed using...

The constructal economic optimization for a given area is carried out in this paper with minimum transport cost objective by using a triangular elemental area. A number of triangular elements are assembled to form a new larger rectangular area and optimized by relaxing the angle constraint. The...

A model of the behaviour of a two-stage semiconductor thermoelectric heat-pump with external heat transfer is devised. Performance of the heat-pump, assuming Newton's heat-transfer law, is analyzed using the combination of finite-time thermodynamics and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. The...

On the basis of an endoreversible absorption refrigeration cycle model with linear phenomenological heat transfer law of Q[is proportional to][Delta](T-1), an irreversible four-heat-reservoir cycle model is built by taking account of the heat resistance, heat leak and irreversibilities due to...

A performance analysis and optimization of a open-cycle regenerator gas-turbine power-plant is performed in this paper. The analytical formulae about the relation between power output and cycle overall pressure-ratio are derived taking into account the eight pressure-drop losses in the intake,...

Thermodynamic optimization models of gas-hydrate cool storage and cool release processes are established in this paper. The optimal temperature configuration at the sensible heat transfer stage and the optimal gas hydrate phase change rate configuration at the phase change stage in the processes...

The design of an axial-flow compressor stage for subcritical Mach numbers has been formulated as a non-linear multi-objective mathematical programming problem with the objective of minimizing the aerodynamic losses and the weight of the stage, while maximizing the compressor's stall margin....

Based on an endoreversible four-heat-reservoir absorption-refrigeration-cycle model, the optimal thermo-economic performance of an absorption-refrigerator is analyzed and optimized assuming a linear (Newtonian) heat-transfer law applies. The optimal relation between the thermo-economic criterion...

The efficiency bounds at maximum profit are obtained from finite-time exergoeconomic analysis for three common heat transfer laws: Newton's law (n = 1), a linear pheomenological law in irreversible thermodynamics (n = 1), and the radiative heat law (n = 4). The relation between optimal profit...

Focusing on the low recycling rate of low temperature waste heat in China's iron and steel industry, this study presented a technical solution recycling blast furnace slag flashing water sensible heat based on thermoelectric power generation. The physical and numerical models are established....