Bounds of efficiency at maximum power for normal-, sub- and super-dissipative Carnot-like heat engines

DOI10.1088/0253-6102/59/2/08MaRDI QIDQ4924775zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yang Wang, Z. C. Tu

Publication date 10 June 2013

Published in Communications in Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.0848

zbMATH Keywords

boundefficiency at maximum powerheat engine

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10)

Abstract: The Carnot-like heat engines are classified into three types (normal-, sub- and super-dissipative) according to relations between the minimum irreversible entropy production in the "isothermal" processes and the time for completing those processes. The efficiencies at maximum power of normal-, sub- and super-dissipative Carnot-like heat engines are proved to be bounded between $et{a}_C/2$ and $et{a}_C/(2-et{a}_C)$, $et{a}_C/2$ and $et{a}_C$, 0 and $et{a}_C/(2-et{a}_C)$, respectively. These bounds are also shared by linear, sub- and super-linear irreversible Carnot-like engines [Tu and Wang, Europhys. Lett. 98, 40001 (2012)] although the dissipative engines and the irreversible ones are inequivalent to each other.

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