The efficiency of the Carnot cycle with arbitrary gas equations of state

DOI10.1088/0143-0807/27/4/004MaRDI QIDQ5484493zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paulus C. Tjiang, S. H. Sutanto

Publication date 17 August 2006

Published in European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0601173

zbMATH Keywords

Carnot cycleefficiencyRedlich-Kwong gas equation of state

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10)

Abstract: The derivation of the efficiency of Carnot cycle is usually done by calculating the heats involved in two isothermal processes and making use of the associated adiabatic relation for a given working substance's equation of state, usually the ideal gas. We present a derivation of Carnot efficiency using the same procedure with Redlich-Kwong gas as working substance to answer the calculation difficulties raised by Agrawal and Menon. We also show that using the same procedure, the Carnot efficiency may be derived regardless of the functional form of the gas equation of state.

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