4. Equipartition in discrete machines and processes
We will now show how the notion of equipartition can be found in systems very different from those examined above, in particular systems involving discrete components and different forms of energy or matter transformation. To illustrate this, we'll start with a multi-stage compressor.
4.1 Optimizing multi-stage gas compression or expansion
It is well known that the theoretically most energy-efficient way of compressing a gas is isothermal compression. . If the gas is perfect, isothermal compression is also isenthalpic; indeed, in the enthalpy expression H = U + PV, both terms are constant since they depend only on temperature. The energy of compression between P 0 and P is then simply given by :...
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