Van der Waals gas as working substance in a Curzon and Ahlborn-Novikov engine

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关键词: thermal engine;    efficiency;    finite time thermodynamics;   

DOI  :  10.3390/e7010108

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Using a van der Waals gas as the working substance the so called Curzon and Ahlborn-Novikov engine is studied. It is shown that some previous results found in the literature of finite time thermodynamics can be written in a more general form, means of this gas and by taking a non linear heat transfer law.

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