“…Furthermore Prigogine [17] developed the principle of minimum entropy production based on the idea that the entropy generation of a thermal system at steady state had to be at the minimum [18,19]. In 1970s, a branch of modern thermodynamics, the finite-time thermodynamics, was developed by Berry, Andersen and Salamon [20][21][22], which investigates the performance limits and the optimization of thermodynamic processes with finite operating time.…”