Tuesday, March 13, 2012

CLAUSIUS STATEMENT

▀Clausius Statement of second law:

It is impossible to construct a device that operates in a cycle and produces no effect other than the transfer of heat from a system at low temperature to another system at high temperature.

Clausius statement points-out the essence of work input required in Refrigerators & Heat pumps

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Heat can’t flow from low temperature to high temperature systems.

COP=Q/W=Q/0=∞.............(impossible)

It is impossible to construct a refrigerator, which operates without an input of work.

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