Sentence examples for heat engine from inspiring English sources
noun
Any device which converts heat energy into mechanical work, by moving heat from a source to a sink.
Because the cold reservoir is always above absolute zero, no heat engine can be 100% efficient.
A heat engine based on this circulating flow unfortunately has a low efficiency.
The classic example of a heat engine is a steam engine, although all modern engines follow the same principles.
Suppose a heat engine absorbs heat Q1 from R1 and exhausts heat Q2 to R2 for each complete cycle.
The second, some centuries later: The universe as a large heat engine is manifested in the theory of thermodynamics, motivated by the steam engine.
The gun and the rocket motor are types of heat engine, partially converting the chemical energy of a propellant into the kinetic energy of a projectile.
A process for which ΔS = 0 is reversible because an infinitesimal change would be sufficient to make the heat engine run backward as a refrigerator.
Since warm air is being moved poleward at low altitudes, the wind flow is no longer associated with the direct heat engine of the Hadley cell.
It can also be regarded in terms of thermodynamics as a heat engine that utilizes an electron-rich gas as its working fluid.
During periods of high demand, the heat pump runs in reverse as a heat engine, expanding and cooling the argon and generating electricity.
The same reasoning can also determine the entropy change for the working substance in the heat engine, such as a gas in a cylinder with a movable piston.
