CHAPTER 8

EXERGY
Lecture # 5
Exergy of flow stream (Control Volume)
EXERGY BALANCE: CLOSED SYSTEMS
The nature of exergy is opposite to that of entropy in that
exergy can be destroyed, but it cannot be created.
 General Exergy Balance of Close System

The system undergoes a process from state 1 to state 2.

A heat engine receives heat from a source at 1200 K at a
rate of 500 kJ/s and rejects the waste heat to a medium at
300 K. The power output of the heat engine is 180 kW.
Determine the reversible power and the irreversibility rate
for this process.