TY - JOUR
T1 - General Properties for an Agrawal Thermal Engine
AU - Paéz-Hernández, Ricardo T.
AU - Chimal-Eguía, Juan Carlos
AU - Sánchez-Salas, Norma
AU - Ladino-Luna, Delfino
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston 2018.
PY - 2018/4/25
Y1 - 2018/4/25
N2 - This paper presents a general property of endoreversible thermal engines known as the Semisum property previously studied in a finite-time thermodynamics context for a Curzon-Ahlborn (CA) engine but now extended to a simplified version of the CA engine studied by Agrawal in 2009 (A simplified version of the Curzon-Ahlborn engine, European Journal of Physics 30 (2009), 1173). By building the Ecological function, proposed by Angulo-Brown (An ecological optimization criterion for finite-time heat engines, Journal of Applied Physics 69 (1991), 7465-7469) in 1991, and considering two heat transfer laws an analytical expression is obtained for efficiency and power output which depends only on the heat reservoirs' temperature. When comparing the existing efficiency values of real power plants and the theoretical efficiencies obtained in this work, it is observed that the Semisum property is satisfied. Moreover, for the Newton and the Dulong-Petit heat transfer laws the existence of the g function is demonstrated and we confirm that in a Carnot-type thermal engine there is a general property independent of the heat transfer law used between the thermal reservoirs and the working substance.
AB - This paper presents a general property of endoreversible thermal engines known as the Semisum property previously studied in a finite-time thermodynamics context for a Curzon-Ahlborn (CA) engine but now extended to a simplified version of the CA engine studied by Agrawal in 2009 (A simplified version of the Curzon-Ahlborn engine, European Journal of Physics 30 (2009), 1173). By building the Ecological function, proposed by Angulo-Brown (An ecological optimization criterion for finite-time heat engines, Journal of Applied Physics 69 (1991), 7465-7469) in 1991, and considering two heat transfer laws an analytical expression is obtained for efficiency and power output which depends only on the heat reservoirs' temperature. When comparing the existing efficiency values of real power plants and the theoretical efficiencies obtained in this work, it is observed that the Semisum property is satisfied. Moreover, for the Newton and the Dulong-Petit heat transfer laws the existence of the g function is demonstrated and we confirm that in a Carnot-type thermal engine there is a general property independent of the heat transfer law used between the thermal reservoirs and the working substance.
KW - Efficiency
KW - Endoreversible engine
KW - Power Output
KW - Semisum Property
KW - The g function
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U2 - 10.1515/jnet-2017-0051
DO - 10.1515/jnet-2017-0051
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85042701424
SN - 0340-0204
VL - 43
SP - 131
EP - 139
JO - Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
JF - Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
IS - 2
ER -