Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Heating and Cooling by Reverse Cycle Engines: State of the Art -- 1.1. Vapor compression refrigerators and heat pumps -- 1.1.1. Operation principle of closed-circuit refrigeration installation: definitions -- 1.1.2. Actual cycle with superheating and subcooling -- 1.1.3. Special cycles -- 1.1.4. Heat output settings -- 1.2. Systems driven by thermal energy -- 1.2.1. Principle of thermodynamic operation -- 1.2.2. Absorption chillers -- 1.2.3. Ejection machines -- 1.3. References
Chapter 2. Entropy and Exergy Analyses Applied to Reverse Cycles -- 2.1. Definition of the study system and objectives -- 2.2. Energy analysis -- 2.2.1. Steady-state system-wide analyses -- 2.2.2. A system-wide analysis: power or energy? -- 2.2.3. Component-scale energy analysis -- 2.3. Entropy analysis -- 2.3.1. Second law of thermodynamics: an entropic power balance -- 2.3.2. Reversible upper limit: Carnot engines -- 2.3.3. Component-scale entropy analysis -- 2.3.4. Phenomenon-scale entropy analysis: two-phase flows with heat transfer and phase change -- 2.4. Exergy analysis
2.4.1. From the concept of exergy to proposed definitions -- 2.4.2. Mathematical definitions of exergy -- 2.4.3. Exergy analysis of reverse cycle engines -- 2.5. Case study for exergy analysis -- 2.5.1. Refrigerator with cooled compression and recovery of heat rejected -- 2.5.2. Heat pump running on CO2 with or without an ejector -- 2.6. References -- Chapter 3. Thermodynamics and Optimization of Reverse Cycle Engines -- 3.1. Reverse cycle engines according to equilibrium thermodynamics: reminders of the concepts -- 3.2. Receiving engines in the presence of internal irreversibilities
3.3. The Carnot refrigerator according to finite-time thermodynamics -- 3.4. The reverse cycle Carnot engine model according to finite physical dimensions thermodynamics (FPDT) -- 3.4.1. Model of a Carnot engine with thermal conductances -- 3.4.2. Immediate extensions of the model with thermal conductances -- 3.5. Generalization of the reverse cycle Carnot engine model according to FPDT -- 3.6. Latest advances in a reverse cycle Carnot engine model -- 3.6.1. Energy model -- 3.6.2. Minimizing the energy expenditure of the Carnot refrigerator (power) -- 3.6.3. The modified Chambadal refrigerator
3.6.4. The modified Curzon-Ahlborn refrigerator -- 3.7. Extension of finite physical dimensions thermodynamics to two complex systems -- 3.7.1. Complex two-reservoir systems -- 3.7.2. Some comments on reverse cycle engines with three and four reservoirs -- 3.8. Some conclusions and perspectives -- 3.9. References -- Chapter 4. Scientific and Technological Challenges of Thermal Compression Refrigerating Systems -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Kinetics and dynamics -- heat and mass transfers in thermal compression engines -- 4.2.1. Absorption theory and design elements of absorbers
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4.2.2. Adsorption theory and dimensioning elements of adsorbers and reverse cycle adsorption engines
