General Form of the 1st Law for Open Systems

Mass In
Mass In
Mass In
Mass Out
Mass Out
Open
System
An open system with multiple inlets and multiple outlets is shown in this figure.
Equation.

1st Law: Enthalpy Form, Muliple Inlets & Outlets

We derived this equation in the previous lesson.
In this lesson, we will apply this equation to a variety of important, practical systems.
These systems are the building blocks of all of the important cycles that we will study later in this course.
Each application in this lesson involves different simplifications of the 1st Law, but all of the systems in this lesson have one thing in common: they operate at steady-state.
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Ch 5, Lesson C, Page 1 - General Form of the 1st Law for Open Systems