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Advanced Thermodynamics for Engineers, 2nd Edition
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Advanced Thermodynamics for Engineers, 2nd Edition

by Ali Turan, D. Winterbone
February 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
578 pages
19h 27m
English
Butterworth-Heinemann
Content preview from Advanced Thermodynamics for Engineers, 2nd Edition
This equation is equivalent to Eqn (3.3), but the value of the high temperature has been replaced by
the term
R
5
2
T
a
ds
ðs
5
s
2
Þ
, which is the mean temperature of heat addition.
Mean temperature of energy addition; or rejection;
T ¼
R
2
1
Tds
s
2
s
1
(3.12)
Hence, any cycle can be made equivalent to a Carnot cycle, and the efficiency of that cycle is the
same as that of a Carnot cycle with the same mean temperatures of heat addition and rejection.This
shows that any cycle in which the temperature of heat addition and rejection are not constant cannot
achieve the same efficiency as a Carnot cycle with the same temperature limits.
3.1.5 RANKINE CYCLE DEPICTED ON
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