Prevents a thermodynamic lower bound from being mistaken for a plant operating prescription.
The reversible case is introduced as a limiting benchmark alongside physically realizable modes.
Simple distillation produces a residue path as material is vaporized and removed. Reversible distillation instead assumes equilibrium throughout and defines the minimum possible energy for a separation, but the author explicitly treats it as a theoretical case that is not technically implementable.
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