Performance of a Carnot refrigerator at maximum cooling power
- 21 November 1990
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 23 (22) , 5319-5326
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/23/22/020
Abstract
The optimization procedure of finite-time thermodynamics is extended in order to calculate the coefficient of performance of ideal refrigerators at maximum cooling power. For this purpose, the cycle time has to be altered somewhat to allow for the occurrence of adiabatic arms in the cycle.Keywords
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