Loss of thermodynamic work at the cascade stages during the separation of a multicomponent mixture of ideal gases

Abstract

Formulas for estimating the thermodynamic work during the separation of components of binary and multicomponent mixtures are discussed and generalized. The difference between the work of separation determined from the separation potential and the thermodynamically estimated work during the isobaric–isothermal mixing of fractions separated at the ends of a cascade is calculated and explained.