16.6 Analyze Performance
In this section, the distiller system performance is analyzed to determine the feasibility of the design.
16.6.1 Item Flow Heat Balance Analysis
The key aspect of distiller performance is the appropriate balance of mass flow and heat flow through the system. To evaluate the flow balance, the analysis focuses on the physical flow of water and heat, as expressed by item properties on the internal block diagram. An alternative analysis approach which focused on the flows in the activity diagram was briefly explored, but discarded in favor of the more intuitive approach of analyzing physical flow on the internal block diagram.
The feasibility of the design can be assessed by analyzing the mass flow rate of the H2O through ...
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