Topic — Thermodynamic cycles, engines, refrigerators and efficiency.
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12 Cycles and heat engines
- What is a heat engine
- Worked example: simplified Carnot cycle
- Worked example: Carnot refrigerator and energy balance
- Refrigerators and heat pumps
- Named cycles
- The Carnot cycle and maximum efficiency
- The price of work
- Why Carnot is a beacon
- Problem: balances of a cycle
- Problem: Carnot with three reservoirs
- Problem: Carnot in the p-V plane (adiabatics vs isotherms)
- Problem: Carnot compared with other cycles
- Problem: monatomic Carnot cycle (400-250 K)
- Problem: Carnot cycle in the ln P – ln V plane
- Problem: Carnot cycle in the T-S plane
- Problem: air conditioner and an open window
- Problem: real air conditioner (SEER)
- Problem: derivation of Carnot efficiency
- Problem: drawing a Carnot cycle (engine and refrigerator)
- Problem: entropy in a Carnot cycle
- Problem: fridge with the door open
- Problem: refrigerator as a reversed cycle
- Problem: Carnot refrigerator (273 K)
- Problem: useful work for 1000 J absorbed
- Problem: Stirling engine
- Problem: realistic petrol engine (Otto vs Carnot)
- Problem: why engines run at high temperature
- Problem: ideal heat pump for a house
- Problem: heat pump for heating (295-273 K)
- Problem: heat pump between 295 and 246 K
- Problem: power of a coal-fired power station
- Problem: four cycles in the T-S plane
- Problem: ranking four refrigerators
- Problem: ranking four Carnot engines
- Problem: ranking four Carnot engines (2)
- Problem: ranking three Carnot engines
- Problem: efficiency from exchanged heat (800-600 J)
- Problem: efficiency of the Brayton cycle
- Problem: efficiency of the Diesel cycle
- Problem: efficiency of the Otto cycle
- Problem: Carnot efficiency as T_f tends to zero
- Problem: efficiency of a real engine (4000-3000 J)
- Problem: Carnot efficiency and work (500-300 K)
- Problem: maximum Carnot efficiency (500-300 K)
- Problem: room with an open refrigerator
- Problem: estimating the power of an air conditioner
- Problem: minimum temperature of a power station
- Problem: an engine with efficiency greater than 1
- Problem: an engine that is too efficient
- Problem: true or false about engines and refrigerators
- Problem: true or false about reversibility and cycles
- Properties of a cycle
- Solving a complete cycle
- Sadi Carnot: a historical note