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An ideal gas enters a valve at 500 K and 3 MPa at a steady-state rate of 3 mol/min. It

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An ideal gas enters a valve at 500 K and 3 MPa at a steady-state rate of 3 mol/min. It is throttled to 0.5 MPa. What is the rate of entropy generation? Is the process irreversible?

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