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Carnot cycle works with isentropic compression ratio of 5bar and heat capacity ratio of 2. The volume of air at the beginning of the isothermal expansion is0.3m3. If the temperature and pressure is limited to 550K and 21bar, determine minimum temperature in the cycle.

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A Carnot engine of efficiency 40 %, takes heat from a source maintained at a temperature of 500 K. It is desired to have an engine of efficiency 60 %. Then, the source temperature for the same sink temperature must be
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Helium gas goes through a cycle ABCDA (consisting of two isochoric and two isobaric lines) as shown in figure. The efficiency of this cycle is approximately

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The efficiency of carnot engine is η when its hot and cold reservoirs are maintained at temperature T1 and T2, respectively. To increase the efficiency to 1.5 η, the increase in temperature ΔT of the hot reservoir by keeping the cold one constant at T2 is
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A carnot engine working between 200 K and 500 K has a work output of 900 J per cycle. The amount of heat energy supplied to the engine from the source in each cycle is
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Three Carnot engines operate in series between a heat source at a temperature T1 and a heat sink at temperature T4 (see figure). There are two other reservoirs at temperature T2 and T3, as shown, with T1>T2>T3>T4. The three engines are equally efficient if:

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A Carnot engine takes 300 calories of heat from a source at 500 K and rejects 150 calories of heat to the sink. The temperature of the sink is
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Two carnot engines A and B are connected in series in such a way that the work outputs are equal when the temperatures of hot and cold reservoirs of A are 800 K and T, and of engine B are T and 300 K, respectively. Then the temperature T is
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A Carnot engine whose low-temperature reservoir is at 350 K has an efficiency of 50% . It is desired to increase this to 60% . If the temperature of the low-temperature reservoir remains constant, then the temperature of the high-temperature reservoir must be increased by how many degrees?
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Two ideal Carnot engines operate in a cascade (all heat given up by one engine is used by the other engine to produce work) between temperatures, T1 and T2 . The temperature of the hot reservoir of the first engine is T1 and the temperature of the cold reservoir of the second engine is T2. T is the temperature of the sink of the first engine which is also the source for the second engine. How is T related to T1 and T2, if both the engines perform an equal amount of work?
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The efficiency of a Carnot engine depends upon
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An engine runs between a reservoir at temperature 200 K and a hot body which is initially at temperature of 600 K. If the hot body cools down to a temperature of 400 K in the process, then the maximum amount of work that the engine can do (while working in a cycle) is (the heat capacity of the hot body is 1 J/K)
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A Carnot engine has an efficiency of 16. When the temperature of the sink is reduced by 62  , its efficiency is doubled. The temperatures of the source and the sink are, respectively,
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For a Carnot engine which of the following is false?

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The efficiency of Carnot engine is 0.6. It rejects 20 J of heat to sink. The work done by the engine is
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A Carnot engine is operating between a hot body and cold body maintained at temperature T1 and T2 respectively. Consider the following three cases

Case I : The temperature of the hot body is changed to T1+ΔT and cold body is at T2

Case II : The temperature of the hot body is at T1 and cold body is changed to T2+ΔT

Case III : The temperature of the hot body is

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An ideal Carnot's engine works between 227° and 57°C. Find the efficiency of the engine.
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Two Carnot engines A and B operate in series such that engine A absorbs heat at T1 and rejects heat to a sink at temperature T. Engine B absorbs half of the heat rejected by Engine A and rejects heat to the sink at T3. When workdone in both the cases is equal, to value of T is :
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A reservoir is at 827 °C and Carnot's engine takes a thousand kilocalorie of heat from it and exhausts it to a sink at 27 °C. What is the amount of work and the efficiency of the engine?
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A Carnot engine having an efficiency of 110 is being used as a refrigerator. If the work done on the refrigerator is 10 J, the amount of heat absorbed from the reservoir at a lower temperature is
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Two carnot engines A and B are operated in series. The first one, A, receives heat at T1=600K and rejects to a reservoir at temperature T2. The second engine B receives heat rejected by the first engine and, in turn, rejects to a heat reservoir at T3=400K. Calculate the temperature T2 if the work outputs of the two engines are equal: