
doi: 10.5772/19650
Different approaches are considered to select optimum criteria for technical process analysis. The maximization of the efficiency and the minimization of the total cost enclosing capital and running costs are the main purposes e.g. Munoz and Von Spakovsky (2003). Physical and thermodynamic criteria and technical and economic considerations have to be joined while analyzing energetic conversion processes (Berlitz et al. 1999; Chen 1995). Thus, deducing economic findings is the common objective of all intentions. Furthermore, the use of the interdisciplinary modeling methods has recently constituted the most important orientation of the technical system studies and process analyses. The simplification of both mathematical description and hypothesis definition of the interaction effects due to internal irreversibilities lead to the development of interesting simple but universal models. Internal irreversibilities due to heat transfer, throttling, mixing and internal dissipation of the working fluid, which are responsible for entropy generation are always present in a real heat driven refrigerator (Chen et Schouten, 1998). However, many works do not satisfy all the futures because the distribution of heat transfer properties between the components is taken as inputs and no as a result to be deduced from the optimization procedure. In the other hand, the interaction effects in the internal processes do not favor separated studies. Therefore, it will be necessary to consider discreet parts of the whole system as they were independent. Then, the characteristics will be treated according to mathematical and physical couplings. To perform these approaches, the theory of finite time thermodynamic is mainly used. Seeing that the heat transfer processes are defined according to temperature finite difference method and the inner and outer reversibilities should be taken into consideration (Fellah et al., 2010). According to the study’s finality, the decomposition of an overall system into subsystems may constitute a helpful tool, for which the physical and mathematical couplings would permit the efficient application of the investigation methods than a whole problem with a unique task. This could reduce the size of the mathematical problem. In fact, many attempts have been made to reduce the size of the problem, using the decomposition method on stage or/and on block models (Berlitz et al. 1999; Feidt and Lang 2002; Chen 1995; Chen and Wu 1996; Fellah, 2008 and Fellah et al., 2010). The results obtained for various thermodynamic cycle analyses using FTT are closer to real device performance than those obtained using classical thermodynamics. During the last two decades, many optimization studies for refrigerators based on endoreversible and irreversible models have been performed by considering various objective functions. Wijeysundera, 1997;
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