Efficiency Bounds for Minimally Nonlinear Irreversible Heat Engines with Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry

We study the minimally nonlinear irreversible heat engines in which the time-reversal symmetry for the systems may be broken. The expressions for the power and the efficiency are derived, in which the effects of the nonlinear terms due to dissipations are included. We show that, as within the linear...

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Autores principales: Liu, Qin, Li, Wei, Zhang, Min, He, Jizhou, Wang, Jianhui
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Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7515233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33267431
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21070717
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He, Jizhou
Wang, Jianhui
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description We study the minimally nonlinear irreversible heat engines in which the time-reversal symmetry for the systems may be broken. The expressions for the power and the efficiency are derived, in which the effects of the nonlinear terms due to dissipations are included. We show that, as within the linear responses, the minimally nonlinear irreversible heat engines can enable attainment of Carnot efficiency at positive power. We also find that the Curzon-Ahlborn limit imposed on the efficiency at maximum power can be overcome if the time-reversal symmetry is broken.
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spelling pubmed-75152332020-11-09 Efficiency Bounds for Minimally Nonlinear Irreversible Heat Engines with Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry Liu, Qin Li, Wei Zhang, Min He, Jizhou Wang, Jianhui Entropy (Basel) Article We study the minimally nonlinear irreversible heat engines in which the time-reversal symmetry for the systems may be broken. The expressions for the power and the efficiency are derived, in which the effects of the nonlinear terms due to dissipations are included. We show that, as within the linear responses, the minimally nonlinear irreversible heat engines can enable attainment of Carnot efficiency at positive power. We also find that the Curzon-Ahlborn limit imposed on the efficiency at maximum power can be overcome if the time-reversal symmetry is broken. MDPI 2019-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7515233/ /pubmed/33267431 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21070717 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Liu, Qin
Li, Wei
Zhang, Min
He, Jizhou
Wang, Jianhui
Efficiency Bounds for Minimally Nonlinear Irreversible Heat Engines with Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry
title Efficiency Bounds for Minimally Nonlinear Irreversible Heat Engines with Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry
title_full Efficiency Bounds for Minimally Nonlinear Irreversible Heat Engines with Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry
title_fullStr Efficiency Bounds for Minimally Nonlinear Irreversible Heat Engines with Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry
title_full_unstemmed Efficiency Bounds for Minimally Nonlinear Irreversible Heat Engines with Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry
title_short Efficiency Bounds for Minimally Nonlinear Irreversible Heat Engines with Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry
title_sort efficiency bounds for minimally nonlinear irreversible heat engines with broken time-reversal symmetry
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7515233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33267431
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21070717
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