Density functional study on the pressure profile of the inhomogeneous fluid mixture

By using the statistical mechanics, the pressure tensor for the multi component fluid mixture is derived. With the help of the classical density functional theory, profiles of the pressure components are calculated, and the influence of the total volume fraction, ratio of volume fraction, and size asymmetry on the pressure are studied. In addition, our results show that for the mixture confined in the hard cavity, the pressure shows a discontinuity near the cavity wall. However, in the soft cavity condition, the discontinuity disappears.

Thermodynamic Performance Analysis of Geothermal Power Plant Based on Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) Using Mixture of Pure Working Fluids

The selection of working fluid significantly impacts the geothermal ORC’s Efficiency.Using a mixture as a working fluid is a strategy to improve the output of geothermal ORC.In the current study,modelling and thermodynamic analysis of ORC,using geothermal as a heat source,is carried out at fixed operating conditions.The model is simulated in the Engineering Equation Solver(EES).An environment-friendly mixture of fluids,i.e.,R245fa/R600a,with a suitable mole fraction,is used as the operating fluid.The mixture provided the most convenient results compared to the pure working fluid under fixed operating conditions.The impact of varying the evaporator pressure on the performance parameters,including energy efficiency,exergy efficiency and net power output is investigated.The system provided the optimal performance once the evaporator pressure reached the maximum value.The efficiencies:Energy and Exergy,and Net Power output of the system are 16.62%,64.08%and 2199 kW for the basic cycle and 20.72%,67.76%and 2326 kW respectively for the regenerative cycle.

Different localized states of travelling-wave convection in a rectangular container

We have performed numerical simulations of localized travelling-wave convection in a binary fluid mixture heated from below in a long rectangular container. Calculations are carried out in a vertical cross section of the rolls perpendic- ular to their axes. For a negative enough separation ratio, two types of quite different confined states were documented by applying different control processes. One branch of localized travelling waves survives only in a very narrow band within subcritical regime, while another branch straddles the onset of convection existing both in subcritical and super- critical regions. We elucidated that concentration field and its current are key to understand how confined convection is sustained when conductive state is absolutely unstable, The weak structures in the conducting region are demonstrated too.

Semiempirical equations of state of H_(2)O/CO_(2) binary mixtures in graphite nanoslits

The existence of confining walls limits the prediction accuracy of nanoconfined fluids using macroscopic equations of state(EOSs);moreover,appropriate EOSs for multicomponent mixture fluids in nanoconfined spaces are missing.Here,we derive the EOS of multicomponent mixture fluids confined in nanospaces at high temperatures and pressures,mainly considering the nanoconfinement effect and the competitive adsorption effect between different components.Then,the EOSs are validated through comparison with the molecular dynamics-simulated Pv T data of CO_(2)/H_(2)O mixtures in graphite nanoslits.To consider the above effects,we derive two EOSs via two modeling methods:EOS I is obtained through modification of the actual component occupation volume in the Peng-Robinson equation of state(PR EOS)by fitting the binary component interaction coefficient and the number of adsorbed molecules according to a selectivity coefficient,while EOS II is obtained by considering the decreased pressure of the fluids in PR EOS by adding an attractive term between components and walls.With the simulation results as a benchmark,the two EOSs exhibited good prediction accuracies under low CO_(2) concentrations,and generally,EOS II was more accurate than EOS I.This study fills the gap in the EOSs of nanoconfined mixture fluids,and the obtained equations can help to further describe the thermodynamic properties of confined mixture fluids.

DYNAMICS OF LOCALIZED TRAVELING WAVE CONVECTION IN BINARY FLUID MIXTURE

The dynamical behavior of a localized traveling wave (LTW) in a binary fluid layer heated from below confined in a rectangular cell with the intermediate aspect ratio Γ=12 and the separation ratio ψ=-0. 11 is studied by using the two-dimensional numerical simulation of the full hydrodynamic equations. We find that a counterpropa-gating wave (CPW) occurs at the onset of convection and is modulated in space-time. The modulated traveling wave (MTW) plays an important role in the transition to the LTW state, and the LTW state depends on the fluid parameters and exists in a narrow interval of the reduced Rayleigh number. The transition from LTW to an extended traveling wave (ETW) or stationary overturning convection (SOC) state occurs when r exceeds a certain critical value. Our results agree with those observed in experiments.