Electronic Resource
[S.l.]
:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Journal of Applied Physics
65 (1989), S. 1-4
ISSN:
1089-7550
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
An endoreversible three-heat-source refrigerator only affected by thermal resistance, like a reversible three-heat-source refrigerator, may be treated as a combined cycle of a two-heat-source engine driving a two-heat-source refrigerator. The theory of finite time thermodynamics in two-heat-source cycles is then used to analyze it and derive its basic optimum relation. Thus, the fundamental effect of thermal resistance on the optimal performance of a three-heat-source refrigerator is expounded. The conclusions obtained here are more realistic than those of classical thermodynamics. They provide some new theoretical bases for further exploitation of the three-heat-source refrigeration apparatus that applies to "cheap'' heat sources, such as solar energy, geothermal energy, waste heat, and so on.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.342570
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