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AN EVAPORATION HEAT ENGINE AND CONDENSATION HEAT PUMP

Part of: Classical thermodynamics, heat transfer Thermodynamics and heat transfer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2008

N. G. BARTON
N. G. BARTON*
Affiliation:
Sunoba Pty Ltd, P.O. Box 1295, Macquarie Centre, NSW 2113, Australia (email: noel.barton@sunoba.com.au)
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Abstract

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This paper presents a thermodynamic model for a heat engine based on evaporative cooling of unsaturated air at reduced pressure. Also analysed is a related heat pump based on condensation of water vapour in moist air at reduced pressure. These devices operate as two-stroke reciprocating engines, which are their simplest possible embodiments. The mathematical models for the two devices are based on conservation of mass for both air and water vapour, ideal gas laws, constant specific heats, and, as appropriate, either constant entropy processes or cooling/heating by evaporation/condensation. Both models take the form of coupled algebraic systems in six variables, which require numerical solution for certain stages of the cycle. The specific work output of the heat engine increases as the inlet air becomes hotter and as the expansion ratio of the engine increases. The engine provides evaporative cooling of air from inlet to outlet. The heat pump has a good coefficient of performance, which decreases as the expansion ratio increases. The heat pump also has the effect of drying the air from inlet to outlet, producing distilled water as a by-product.

Keywords

heat engineheat pumpevaporationcondensationlow-pressurethermodynamic cyclesideal gases

MSC classification

Secondary: 80-04: Explicit machine computation and programs (not the theory of computation or programming) 80A20: Heat and mass transfer, heat flow 80A99: None of the above, but in this section
Type
Research Article
Information
The ANZIAM Journal , Volume 49 , Issue 4 , April 2008 , pp. 503 - 524
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2008

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