| Air is compressed by a compressor that is driven by an electric motor. The effluent air is warmer
than the air at the inlet of the compressor. An entrepreneur plans to
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| He claims that this system is 10% more efficient than an eletrical resistance heater. Is this possible or is this another perpetual motion
machine? If so, what kind? Explain
your reasoning. |
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Short and sweet. |
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Find: |
Is this a PMM ? Explain |
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None. |
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Efficiency for a heating system is really the coefficient of
performance and it is defined by : |
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Eqn 1 |
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The COP for the resistance heater is 1 because it converts all of the electrical energy input into heat rejected into the hot reservoir…your home. |
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If the COP of the compressor/heater device is 10% greater, then : |
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1.1 |
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And: |
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Eqn 2 |
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But if you consider a
system in which the air is recycled as the working fluid, then the 1st Law for the compressor/heater system is: |
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Eqn 3 |
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Eqns
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Therefore, the
inventor's device violates
the 1st Law ! |
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No assumptions to
verify ! |
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| Answers : |
It is a PMM of the 1st Kind ! |
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