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Carnot and Cycle Heat Engine Fundamentals and Applications • Michel Feidt Carnot Cycle and Heat Engine Fundamentals and Applications Edited by Michel Feidt Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Entropy www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy Carnot Cycle and Heat Engine Fundamentals and Applications Carnot Cycle and Heat Engine Fundamentals and Applications Special Issue Editor Michel Feidt MDPI • Basel • Beijing • Wuhan • Barcelona • Belgrade • Manchester • Tokyo • Cluj • Tianjin Special Issue Editor Michel Feidt Universite´ de Lorraine France Editorial Office MDPI St. Alban-Anlage 66 4052 Basel, Switzerland This is a reprint of articles from the Special Issue published online in the open access journal Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300) (available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special issues/ carnot cycle). For citation purposes, cite each article independently as indicated on the article page online and as indicated below: LastName, A.A.; LastName, B.B.; LastName, C.C. Article Title. Journal Name Year, Article Number, Page Range. ISBN 978-3-03928-845-8 (Pbk) ISBN 978-3-03928-846-5 (PDF) c 2020 by the authors. Articles in this book are Open Access and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. The book as a whole is distributed by MDPI under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND. Contents About the Special Issue Editor ...................................... vii Michel Feidt Carnot Cycle and Heat Engine: Fundamentals and Applications Reprinted from: Entropy 2020, 22, 348, doi:10.3390/e2203034855 ................... 1 Julian Gonzalez-Ayala, Jos´e Miguel M. Roco, Alejandro Medina and Antonio Calvo Hern´andez Carnot-Like Heat Engines Versus Low-Dissipation Models Reprinted from: Entropy 2017, 19, 182, doi:10.3390/e19040182 ..................... 3 Michel Feidt The History and Perspectives of Efficiency at Maximum Power of the Carnot Engine Reprinted from: Entropy 2017, 19, 369, doi:10.3390/e19070369 ..................... 17 Per Lundqvist and Henrik Ohman¨ Global Efficiency of Heat Engines and Heat Pumps with Non-Linear Boundary Conditions Reprinted from: Entropy 2017, 19, 394, doi:10.3390/e19080394 ..................... 29 Ti-Wei Xue and Zeng-Yuan Guo What Is the Real Clausius Statement of the Second Law of Thermodynamics? Reprinted from: Entropy 2019, 21, 926, doi:10.3390/e21100926 ..................... 37 J. C. Chimal-Eguia, R. Paez-Hernandez, Delfino Ladino-Luna and Juan Manuel Velazquez-Arcos´ Performance of a Simple Energetic-Converting Reaction Model Using Linear Irreversible Thermodynamics Reprinted from: Entropy 2019, 21, 1030, doi:10.3390/e21111030 .................... 47 Michel Feidt and Monica Costea Progress in Carnot and Chambadal Modeling of Thermomechanical Engine by Considering Entropy Production and Heat Transfer Entropy Reprinted from: Entropy 2019, 21, 1232, doi:10.3390/e21121232 .................... 61 Kevin Fontaine, Takeshi Yasunaga and Yasuyuki Ikegami OTEC Maximum Net Power Output Using Carnot Cycle and Application to Simplify Heat Exchanger Selection Reprinted from: Entropy 2019, 21, 1143, doi:10.3390/e21121143 .................... 75 Igor Poljak, Josip Orovi´c,Vedran Mrzljak and Dean Berneˇci´c Energy and Exergy Evaluation of a Two-Stage Axial Vapour Compressor on the LNG Carrier Reprinted from: Entropy 2020, 22, 115, doi:10.3390/e220101155 .................... 95 Steve Djetel-Gothe, Fran¸coisLanzetta and Sylvie B´egot Second Law Analysis for the Experimental Performances of a Cold Heat Exchanger of a Stirling Refrigeration Machine Reprinted from: Entropy 2020, 22, 215, doi:10.3390/e22020215 .....................115 v About the Special Issue Editor Michel Feidt, emeritus professor at the University of Lorraine France, where he has spent his entire career in education and research. His main interests are thermodynamics and energy. He is a specialist of infinite physical dimensions optimal thermodynamics (FDOT) from a fundamental point of view, illustrating the necessity to consider irreversibility to optimize systems and processes and characterize upper bound efficiencies. He has published many articles in journals and books: more than 120 papers and more than 5 books. He participates actively in numerous international and national conferences on the same subject. He has developed 55 final contracts reports and was the director of 43 theses. He has been member of more than 110 doctoral committees. He is a member of the scientific committee of more than 5 scientific journals and editor-in-chief of one journal. vii entropy Editorial Carnot Cycle and Heat Engine: Fundamentals and Applications Michel Feidt Laboratory of Energetics, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (LEMTA), URA CNRS 7563, University of Lorraine, 54518 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France; [email protected] Received: 6 March 2020; Accepted: 13 March 2020; Published: 18 March 2020 After two years of exchange, this specific issue dedicated to the Carnot cycle and thermomechanical engines has been completed with ten papers including this editorial. Our thanks are extended to all the authors for the interesting points of view they have proposed: this issue confirms the strong interactions between fundamentals and applications in thermodynamics. Regarding the list of published papers annexed at the end of this editorial, it appears that six papers [1–6] are basically concerned with thermodynamics concepts. The three others [7–9] employ thermodynamics for specific applications. Only the papers included in the special issue are cited and analyzed in this editorial. In “OTEC Maximum Net Power Output Using Carnot Cycle and Application to Simplify Heat Exchanger Selection”, Fontaine et al. [7] consider the maximum net power for the OTEC system using the Carnot cycle to simplify heat exchanger selection. The paper “Energy and Exergy Evaluation of a Two-Stage Axial Vapor Compressor on the LNG Carrier”, by Poljak et al. [8], particularizes energy and exergy evaluation to a component of a system: a two-stage axial vapor compressor for LNG application. In “Second Law Analysis for the Experimental Performances of a Cold Heat Exchanger of a Stirling Refrigeration Machine”, Djetel-Gothe et al. [9] also use second law analysis to quantify experimental performances of a cold heat exchanger of a Stirling refrigerator system. The first conclusion is that we must enlarge the subject from engines to reverse cycle machines, and particularly those dedicated to low temperature applications. This is confirmed by the paper “Global Efficiency of Heat Engines and Heat Pumps with Non-Linear Boundary Conditions” [3] which is concerned both with efficiency of heat pumps and heat engines. This paper establishes the connection between applications and concepts, mainly global efficiency in this case. This concept is fruitful due to its non-dimensional form. Lundqvist and Öhman [3] use a black box method to compare thermal efficiencies of different scale and type of engines and heat pumps. The influence of boundary conditions is exemplified. Using FTT (Finite Time Thermodynamics) and Max power cycle approaches easily enable a black box modeling with various (linear or not) boundary conditions. Two papers give respectively a short history regarding efficiency at maximum power and an analysis of the methodology used in modeling and optimization of Carnot engines [2,6]. It appears that in any of the cases specific physical dimensions are correlated to the choice of objective function and constraints. This is why we preconize the acronym FDOT (Finite physical Dimensions Optimal Thermodynamics) instead of FTT. In “Progress in Carnot and Chambadal Modeling of Thermomechanical Engines by Considering Entropy Production and Heat Transfer Entropy”, Feidt and Costea [6] details some progress in Carnot and Chambadal modeling of thermomechanical engines by considering entropy production as well as heat transfer entropy. The paper by Gonzalez-Ayala et al. [1] has the same philosophy as the paper by Feidt and Costea [6] but using finite time heat engine models compared to low dissipation models. The proposed models take account of heat leak and internal irreversibilities related to time; the maximum power (MP) regime is covered. Upper and lower bounds of MP efficiency are reported depending on the heat transfer law. Entropy 2020, 22, 348; doi:10.3390/e22030348551 www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy Entropy 2020, 22, 348 The paper by Xue and Guo [4] is more exotic. It re-examines the Clausius statement of the second law of thermodynamics. This paper introduces an average temperature method. We hope to have the opportunity to continue to report on the progress of the subject in the near future, extending the subject to reverse cycle configurations. Acknowledgments: We express our thanks to the authors of the above contributions, and to the journal Entropy and MDPI for their support during this work. Conflicts of Interest: The author declares no conflict of interest. References 1. Gonzalez-Ayala, J.; Roco, J.M.M.; Medina, A.; Calvo Hernández, A. Carnot-Like Heat Engines Versus Low-Dissipation Models. Entropy 2017, 19, 182. [CrossRef] 2. Feidt, M. The History and Perspectives of Efficiency at Maximum Power of the Carnot Engine. Entropy 2017, 19, 369. [CrossRef] 3. Lundqvist, P.; Öhman, H. Global Efficiency of Heat Engines and Heat Pumps with Non-Linear Boundary Conditions.
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