Question: An engineer claims to have invented a steady-flow device that will take air at 4 bar and at a certain constant temperature and separate it

An engineer claims to have invented a steady-flow device that will take air at 4 bar and at a certain constant temperature and separate it into two streams of equal molar flow rates, one at 1 bar and -20 C and the second one at 1 bar and 71 C. Furthermore, the inventor states that his device operates adiabatically and does not require (or produce) any work. If such a device is possible, determine the total work lost at an ambient temperature of 21 C for an inlet molar flow rate of 7 mol/s. Air can be assumed to be an ideal gas with a constant heat capacity of cp = 29.3 J/(mol K)

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