The Heat Engine Problem (1902) - Softcover

Lucke PhD, Charles Edward

9781163970737: The Heat Engine Problem (1902)

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ISBN 10: 1163970735 ISBN 13: 9781163970737

Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, 2010

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The Heat Engine Problem, written by Charles Edward Lucke and published in 1902, is a book that explores the fundamental principles of thermodynamics and the challenges faced by engineers in designing efficient heat engines. The book is divided into three parts, with the first part providing an overview of the laws of thermodynamics and their applications in the design of heat engines. The second part focuses on the practical challenges faced by engineers in designing heat engines, including the selection of materials, the optimization of combustion processes, and the minimization of energy losses. The third part of the book explores the potential of new technologies, such as the use of steam turbines and gas engines, to improve the efficiency of heat engines. Throughout the book, Lucke emphasizes the importance of understanding the underlying principles of thermodynamics in order to design more efficient and effective heat engines. The Heat Engine Problem is a seminal work in the field of thermodynamics and remains a valuable resource for engineers and researchers today.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

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This is desirable because no comparisons can be justly drawn otherwise and it is, unfortunately, true that invariably in the past the best conditions of one system have beenv selected for comparison with some other system working under indifferent conditions. This may not have been done intentionally, in fact it appears that in many cases the comparison seemed perfectly just to the author but the results are almost valueless as bases of generalization for the purpose of reaching clear notions of comparative value. A commonly used mode of comparison considers different cycles working through the same temperature range whereas equal quantities of heat for each case will result in different temperature ranges and it is pretty clear that comparisons should be made on the basis of some initial conditions one of which is the heat supplied. A perfect gas will transform heat into work and considering the gas alone without reference to any engine the fraction of the heat that is transformed is dependent on the relation both in sequence and extent of the operations of heating, cooling, expansion and contraction in short is dependent on the cycle first and the extent of each cyclic phase secondly. It is first required to find out just how much heat energy will be transformed by each cycle and if other things are equal one should be the best for application to engines. But in this comparison we should consider not only which cycle transforms the largest amount of the heat energy supplied to it into work but also through just what range of pressures, volumes and temperatures these cycles must operate to produce the work This comparison will be purely mathematical and will, when completed, enable us to select the best cycle or best two cycles as the case may be, i.e.
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