Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach
Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach
8th Edition
ISBN: 9780073398174
Author: Yunus A. Cengel Dr., Michael A. Boles
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 6.11, Problem 103P

A heat pump is to be used for heating a house in winter. The house is to be maintained at 78°F at all times. When the temperature outdoors drops to 25°F, the heat losses from the house are estimated to be 70,000 Btu/h. Determine the minimum power required to run this heat pump if heat is extracted from (a) the outdoor air at 25°F and (b) the well water at 50°F.

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Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach

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That is, the...Ch. 6.11 - What is the Clausius expression of the second law...Ch. 6.11 - Show that the KelvinPlanck and the Clausius...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 38PCh. 6.11 - Determine the COP of a heat pump that supplies...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 40PCh. 6.11 - Prob. 41PCh. 6.11 - 6–42 An air conditioner removes heat steadily from...Ch. 6.11 - 6–43 A food department is kept at –12°C by a...Ch. 6.11 - A household refrigerator that has a power input of...Ch. 6.11 - When a man returns to his well-sealed house on a...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 47PCh. 6.11 - Prob. 48PCh. 6.11 - 6–49 A heat pump is used to maintain a house at a...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 50PCh. 6.11 - A household refrigerator runs one-fourth of the...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 52PCh. 6.11 - Consider an office room that is being cooled...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 54PCh. 6.11 - Refrigerant-134a enters the condenser of a...Ch. 6.11 - An inventor claims to have developed a resistance...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 57PCh. 6.11 - A cold canned drink is left in a warmer room where...Ch. 6.11 - A block slides down an inclined plane with...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 60PCh. 6.11 - Show that processes that use work for mixing are...Ch. 6.11 - Why does a nonquasi-equilibrium compression...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 63PCh. 6.11 - Prob. 64PCh. 6.11 - Prob. 65PCh. 6.11 - Why are engineers interested in reversible...Ch. 6.11 - What are the four processes that make up the...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 68PCh. 6.11 - Prob. 69PCh. 6.11 - Prob. 70PCh. 6.11 - Somebody claims to have developed a new reversible...Ch. 6.11 - Is there any way to increase the efficiency of a...Ch. 6.11 - Consider two actual power plants operating with...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 74PCh. 6.11 - Prob. 75PCh. 6.11 - 6–76 A Carnot heat engine receives 650 kJ of heat...Ch. 6.11 - A Carnot heat engine operates between a source at...Ch. 6.11 - A heat engine operates between a source at 477C...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 80PCh. 6.11 - Prob. 81PCh. 6.11 - In tropical climates, the water near the surface...Ch. 6.11 - 6–83 A well-established way of power generation...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 84PCh. 6.11 - Prob. 85PCh. 6.11 - How can we increase the COP of a Carnot...Ch. 6.11 - In an effort to conserve energy in a heat-engine...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 88PCh. 6.11 - Prob. 89PCh. 6.11 - 6–90 During an experiment conducted in a room at...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 91PCh. 6.11 - An air-conditioning system operating on the...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 93PCh. 6.11 - Prob. 94PCh. 6.11 - Prob. 95PCh. 6.11 - Prob. 96PCh. 6.11 - 6–97 A heat pump is used to maintain a house at...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 98PCh. 6.11 - Prob. 99PCh. 6.11 - Prob. 100PCh. 6.11 - A commercial refrigerator with refrigerant-134a as...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 102PCh. 6.11 - A heat pump is to be used for heating a house in...Ch. 6.11 - A Carnot heat pump is to be used to heat a house...Ch. 6.11 - A Carnot heat engine receives heat from a...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 106PCh. 6.11 - Prob. 107PCh. 6.11 - Prob. 108PCh. 6.11 - Derive an expression for the COP of a completely...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 110PCh. 6.11 - Prob. 111PCh. 6.11 - Prob. 112PCh. 6.11 - Prob. 113PCh. 6.11 - Someone proposes that the entire...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 115PCh. 6.11 - Prob. 116PCh. 6.11 - Prob. 117PCh. 6.11 - It is often stated that the refrigerator door...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 119RPCh. 6.11 - A Carnot heat pump is used to heat and maintain a...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 121RPCh. 6.11 - Prob. 122RPCh. 6.11 - A refrigeration system uses a water-cooled...Ch. 6.11 - A heat pump with a COP of 2.8 is used to heat an...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 125RPCh. 6.11 - Consider a Carnot refrigeration cycle executed in...Ch. 6.11 - Consider two Carnot heat engines operating in...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 129RPCh. 6.11 - A heat engine operates between two reservoirs at...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 132RPCh. 6.11 - An old gas turbine has an efficiency of 21 percent...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 134RPCh. 6.11 - Prob. 135RPCh. 6.11 - Prob. 136RPCh. 6.11 - Prob. 137RPCh. 6.11 - Prob. 138RPCh. 6.11 - Prob. 139RPCh. 6.11 - A refrigeration system is to cool bread loaves...Ch. 6.11 - The drinking water needs of a production facility...Ch. 6.11 - Prob. 143RPCh. 6.11 - Prob. 145RPCh. 6.11 - Prob. 146RPCh. 6.11 - Prob. 147RPCh. 6.11 - Prob. 148RPCh. 6.11 - 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