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Heat engines and the Curzon-Ahlborn efficiency

 

A. Calvo Hernández^α, J.M.M. Roco^α, A. Medina^α, and N. Sánchez-Salas^b

 

^α Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain.

^b Departamento de Física, Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Edif. No. 9, U P. Zacatenco, 07738, México, D. F, México.

 

Received 20 March 2014;
Accepted 20 August 2014

 

Abstract

The so-called Curzon-Ahlborn efficiency is becoming a paradigmatic result with regards to thermodynamic optimization of power cycles. Its wide applicability and sole dependence on the external heat bath temperatures (as the Carnot efficiency does) allows for an easy and fairly comparison with experimental efficiencies of striking validity. Different analytical derivations are presented in order to assess its validity and limitations for a broad variety of thermal cycles and steady state systems based on Finite-Time, Linear-Irreversible and Equilibrium Thermodynamic frameworks. Some conclusions and future perspectives are also outlined.

Keywords: Thermodynamics; heat engines; optimization; Curzon-Ahlborn efficiency.

 

PACS: 05.70.Ln; 05.70.-a; 88.05.De

 

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge F. Angulo-Brown for careful reading of the manuscript and useful comments. We acknowledge CONACYT, EDI-IPN, COFAA-IPN, and Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of Spain under Grant ENE2013-40644R.

 

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