Mechanical Efficiency of Heat Engines

Name: Mechanical Efficiency of Heat Engines
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ISBN: 9780521868808

ISBN-10: 0521868807

ISBN-13: 9780521868808

Edition: 2006

Authors: James R. Senft

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This book presents a newly developed general conceptual and basic quantitative analysis of the mechanical efficiency of heat engines. The book works out the theory at a level of ideality and generality compatible with the treatment given to thermal efficiency by classical thermodynamics. This yields results of broad bearing concerning the overall cyclic conversion of heat into usable mechanical energy. Most notably, the work reveals intrinsic limits on the overall performance of reciprocating heat engines. The ideal Stirling engine is shown to have the best overall performance potential of all possible engines under ideal comparable assumptions. The work provides mathematically explicit…

Book details

List price: $127.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/13/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 188
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English




Energy transfers in cyclic heat engines



Mechanism effectiveness and mechanical efficiency



General efficiency limits



Compression ratio and shaft work



Pressurization effects



Charge effects in ideal Stirling engines



Crossley-Stirling engines



Generalized engine cycles and variable buffer pressure



Multi-workspace engines and heat pumps



Optimum Stirling engine geometry



Heat transfer effects



General theory of machines, effectiveness, and efficiency



An ultra-low temperature differential Stirling engine



A temperature differential Stirling engine


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