The, submaximal, thermodynamic efficiency of aerobic microbial growth depends on whether no consumption / production of 02, or no carbon product other than biomass, is admitted into the assimilation equation. When the growth substrate has a low degree of reduction, the former efficiency approaches 22 % whilst the latter approaches 54 %. Expectations for maximal growth rate at optimum efficiency...

Thermodynamic data on environmental refrigerants have attracted considerable interest in the optimization and design of heat compressors, exchangers and other refrigeration equipment. In this study, An optimization algorithm was used to obtain the constant parameters of the new empirical model by fitting them to the source databank. The model was used to calculate the constant coefficients of t...

We consider the efficiency of chemical energy extraction from the environment by the growth of a copolymer made of two constituent units in the entropy-driven regime. We show that the thermodynamic nonlinearity associated with the information processing aspect is responsible for a branching of the system properties such as power, speed of growth, entropy production, and efficiency, with varying...

Abstract A critical evaluation of all available phase diagram and thermodynamic data has been performed for Ag-As, Ag-S, As-S Ag-As-S systems, including a detailed review the gaseous species involved in system. Thermodynamic assessments over whole composition range these four systems are presented using CALPHAD method. To predict properties equilibria, Modified Quasichemical Model short orderin...

In “Is the Frobenius Matrix Norm Induced?”, the authors ask whether the Frobenius and the norms are induced. There, they claimed that the Frobenius norm is not induced and, consequently, conjectured that the norm may not be induced. In this note, it is shown that the Frobenius norm is induced on particular matrix spaces. It is then shown that the norm is in fact induced on a particular matrix-v...

We present an algorithm to evaluate large deviation functions associated to historydependent observables. Instead of relying on a time discretisation procedure to approximate the dynamics, we provide a direct continuous-time algorithm valuable for systems with multiple time scales, thus extending the work of Giardinà, Kurchan and Peliti [1]. The procedure is supplemented with a thermodynamic-in...

This paper considers the implementation of an exergy-based multiple degree of freedom (MDOF) optimization and control methodology for the operation of VCC systems. The optimization problem for the standard VCC is characterized in terms of 4 thermodynamic variables and 1 fluid-dynamic variable. The resulting control problem is then analyzed, and a design variable, Λ, is introduced which allows t...