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Closed Power Cycles Thermodynamic Fundamentals and Applications

With the growing attention to the exploitation of renewable energies and heat recovery from industrial processes, the traditional steam and gas cycles are showing themselves often inadequate. The inadequacy is due to the great assortment of the required sizes power and of the large kind of heat sour...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Invernizzi, Costante Mario
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Springer London 2013, 2013
Edition:1st ed. 2013
Series:Lecture Notes in Energy
Subjects:
Mechanical Power Engineering
Engineering Fluid Dynamics
Fluid Mechanics
Heat Engineering
Electric Power Production
Thermodynamics
Heat Transfer
Electrical Power Engineering
Mass Transfer
Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat And Mass Transfer
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1.The heat engine, the prime movers and the modern closed energy conversion systems
  • 2.The thermodynamic properties of the working fluids
  • 3.The Organic Rankine Cycle
  • 4.The real gas closed cycles
  • 5.The binary cycles
  • App A.The fluid machines and the balance equations
  • App B.The Exergy or the Available Energy function
  • App C.Irreversibilities in the thermodynamic cycles and in the thermal machines

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