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The smallest possible thermal machines and the foundations of thermodynamics
<!--HTML--><p>In my talk I raise the question on the fundamental limits to the size of thermal machines – refrigerators, heat pumps and work producing engines - and I will present the smallest possible ones. I will then discuss the issue of a possible complementarity between size and eff...
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| Acceso en línea: | http://cds.cern.ch/record/2314377 |
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| author | Popescu, Sandu |
| author_facet | Popescu, Sandu |
| author_sort | Popescu, Sandu |
| collection | CERN |
| description | <!--HTML--><p>In my talk I raise the question on the fundamental limits to the size of thermal machines – refrigerators, heat pumps and work producing engines - and I will present the smallest possible ones. I will then discuss the issue of a possible complementarity between size and efficiency and show that even the smallest machines could be maximally efficient and I will also present a new point of view over what is work and what do thermal machines actually do. Finally I will present a completely new approach to the foundations of thermodynamics that follows from these results.</p> |
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| institution | Organización Europea para la Investigación Nuclear |
| language | eng |
| publishDate | 2018 |
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| spelling | cern-23143772022-11-02T22:19:34Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/2314377engPopescu, SanduThe smallest possible thermal machines and the foundations of thermodynamicsThe smallest possible thermal machines and the foundations of thermodynamicsCERN Colloquium<!--HTML--><p>In my talk I raise the question on the fundamental limits to the size of thermal machines – refrigerators, heat pumps and work producing engines - and I will present the smallest possible ones. I will then discuss the issue of a possible complementarity between size and efficiency and show that even the smallest machines could be maximally efficient and I will also present a new point of view over what is work and what do thermal machines actually do. Finally I will present a completely new approach to the foundations of thermodynamics that follows from these results.</p>oai:cds.cern.ch:23143772018 |
| spellingShingle | CERN Colloquium Popescu, Sandu The smallest possible thermal machines and the foundations of thermodynamics |
| title | The smallest possible thermal machines and the foundations of thermodynamics |
| title_full | The smallest possible thermal machines and the foundations of thermodynamics |
| title_fullStr | The smallest possible thermal machines and the foundations of thermodynamics |
| title_full_unstemmed | The smallest possible thermal machines and the foundations of thermodynamics |
| title_short | The smallest possible thermal machines and the foundations of thermodynamics |
| title_sort | smallest possible thermal machines and the foundations of thermodynamics |
| topic | CERN Colloquium |
| url | http://cds.cern.ch/record/2314377 |
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