Thermodynamic analysis of chemical precooled turbine combined engine cycle

Wang, Cong; Ha, Chan; Pan, Xiaofei; Qin, Jiang; Huang, Hongyan

doi:10.1016/j.enconman.2021.114184

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“…volume expansion or directed difts and rotations, is generated from chemical potential grandients [5][6][7][8][9][10][11], from the splitting of chemical bonds (molecular motors) [12,13] as in ATP hydrolysis, from thermal diffusion modelled by Langevin and Fokker-Planck equations (Brownian motors) [10,14,15], and from surface energy in interface phenomena like tears of wine, beating oil lenses, and self-oscillating pendant droplets [16]. Recent technologically oriented applications are syngas production [17], capacitive deionisation for desalinisation of blackish water [18,19], CO 2 capture by carbonation-decarbonation cycles [20], solardriven CO 2 reduction [21], chemical looping for hydrogen production [22,23] and for energy and carbon storage [24,25], low-grade heat harvesting [26][27][28], pyrolytic reactions to increase the efficiency of turbine engines [29].…”

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Quantum thermochemical engines

Marzolino¹

2022

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Convertion of chemical energy into mechanical work is the fundamental mechanism of several natural phenomena at the nanoscale, like molecular machines and Brownian motors. Quantum mechanical effects are relevant for optimising these processes and to implement them at the atomic scale. This paper focuses on engines that transform chemical work into mechanical work through energy and particle exchanges with thermal sources at different chemical potentials. Irreversibility is introduced by modelling the engine transformations with finite-time dynamics generated by a time-depending quantum master equation. Quantum degenerate gases provide maximum efficiency for reversible engines, whereas the classical limit implies small efficiency. For irreversible engines, both the output power and the efficiency at maximum power are much larger in the quantum regime than in the classical limit. The analysis of ideal homogeneous gases grasps the impact of quantum statistics on the above performances, which persists in the presence of interactions and more general trapping. The performance dependence on different types of Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) is also studied. BECs under considerations are standard BECs with a finite fraction of particles in the ground state, and generalised BECs where eigenstates with parallel momenta, or those with coplanar momenta are macroscopically occupied according to the confinement anisotropy. Quantum statistics is therefore a resource for enhanced performances of converting chemical into mechanical work.

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