Consider a steady-flow process in which the following gas-phase reaction takes place: CO + 1/2O2 → C02. The surroundings are at 300 K.
(a) What is Wideal when the reactants enter the process as pure carbon monoxide and as air containing the stoichiometric amount of oxygen, both at 25°C and 1 bar, and the products of complete combustion leave the process at the same conditions?
(b) The overall process is exactly the same as in (a), but the CO is here burned in an adiabatic reactor at 1 bar. What is Wideal for the process of cooling the flue gases to 25°C? What is the irreversible feature of the overall process? What is its thermodynamic efficiency? What has increased in entropy, and by how much?