Heat Engines and Refrigerators

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Heat Engines and Refrigerators: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as Carnot's Engine, Carnot Cycle, Expansion in Carnot Cycle, Compression in Carnot Cycle, Efficiency of Carnot Cycle, Carnot Theorem, Heat Engine, Efficiency of Heat Engine, Refrigerator, etc.

Important Questions on Heat Engines and Refrigerators

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A diatomic ideal gas is used in a carnot engine as the working substance. If during the adiabatic expansion part of the cycle, the volume of the gas increases from V to 32 V, the efficiency of the engine is,

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What is the sequence of expansion in the process of Carnot cycle?

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In carnot's engine at the end of the cycle, the temperature of the working substance is

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Even Carnot engine cannot give 100% efficiency because we cannot

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A Carnot engine works between constant temperature T1 and T2 of source and sink, respectively. For efficiency to be greatest

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The work done by the gas of thermal expansion in the Carnot cycle is

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The efficiency of all reversible heat engines operating between the same heat reservoirs is :

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The correct sequence of the processes taking place in a carnot cycle is

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 A cyclic heat engine does 50kJ of work per cycle. If efficiency of engine is 75%, the heat rejected per cycle will be

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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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A refrigerator is to maintain the eatables, kept inside it, at 9°C. The coefficient of performance of the refrigerator, if the room temperature is 36°C, is

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An ideal heat engine exhausting heat at 77°C is to have a 30% efficiency. It must take the heat at:

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An ideal refrigerator has a freezer at a temperature of -13°C. The coefficient of performance of the refrigerator is 5. The temperature of the air (to which heat is rejected) will be:

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A Carnot engine absorbs 750 J of heat energy from a reservoir at 137  and rejects 500 J of heat during each cycle, then the temperature of sink is

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An ideal gas heat engine operates in a carnot cycle between 227°C and 127°C. It absorbs 6 kcal at the higher temperature. The amount of heat (in kcal) converted into work is equal to 

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A carnot refrigeration cycle absorbs heat at 270 K and rejects heat at 300 K. If the cycle is absorbing 1260 kJ/min at 270 K, then work required per second is:

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A heat engine is operating between 500 K to 300 K. If the engine absorbs 100 J heat, then which of the following is impossible amount of heat rejected by this heat engine.

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Two Carnot's engines A and B have the same efficiency. A receives heat from a source at 800 K and rejects to a sink at  'x' kelvin. B receives heat rejected by A and rejects to another sink at 300 K. The temperature  'x' is nearly _____.

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An engine has an efficiency of 16. When the temperature of sink is reduced by 62°C, its efficiency is doubled. The temperatures of source and sink are,

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The efficiency of a Carnot engine with low-temperature reservoir at 7°C is 50%. To have the efficiency of 70% by how many degrees should the temperature of the high-temperature reservoir be increased?