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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
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The physical significance of this is that the system can produce work output as long as there is a
temperature difference between the system and the dead state; the sign of the temperature difference
does not matter.
4.11 CONCLUDING REMARKS
This chapter has introduced the concept of the ‘quality’ of energy through the quasi-properties
availability and exergy. It has been shown that energy available at a high temperature has better
quality than that at a low temperature. The effect of irreversibilities on the quality of energy has been
considered, and while the energy of the universe
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