Help Calculating time to recharge air tanks

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Help Calculating time to recharge air tanks

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01-02-2015, 23:37

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Re: Help Calculating time to recharge air tanks

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Originally Posted by Michael Hill

My assumption is isentropic compression..

I don't believe that the air compressor would be well modeled as an isentropic (reversible) process. Even if the mechanical compression were isentropic, the presence of a heat sink at the compressor output radiating/convecting heat from the compressed air into the environment would make the process irreversible.

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