An engineer suggested that high-temperature disassociation of water be used to produce a hydrogen fuel. A reactorseparator

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An engineer suggested that high-temperature disassociation of water be used to produce a hydrogen fuel. A reactor–separator has been designed that can accommodate temperatures as high as 4000 K and pressures as much as 5 atm. Water enters this reactor–separator at 25°C. The separator separates the various constituents in the mixture into individual streams whose temperature and pressure match those of the reactor–separator. These streams are then cooled to 25°C and stored in atmospheric pressure tanks with the exception of any remaining water, which is returned to the reactor to repeat the process again. Hydrogen gas from these tanks is later burned with a stoichiometric amount of air to provide heat for an electrical power plant. The parameter that characterizes this system is the ratio of the heat released by burning the hydrogen to the amount of heat used to generate the hydrogen gas. Select the operating pressure and temperature for the reactor–separator that maximizes this ratio. Can this ratio ever be bigger than unity?

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Thermodynamics An Engineering Approach

ISBN: 9781259822674

9th Edition

Authors: Yunus Cengel, Michael Boles, Mehmet Kanoglu

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