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An effective thermodynamic transformation analysis method was proposed in this study. According to the phenomenon of exergy consumption always coupling with heat transfer process, the effective thermodynamic temperatures were defined, then the actual power cycle or refrigeration/heat pump cycle was transformed into the equivalent reversible Carnot or reverse Carnot cycles for thermodynamic analysis. The derived effective thermodynamic temperature of the hot reservoir of the equivalent reverse Carnot cycle is the basis of the proposed method. The combined diagram of TR-h and TR-q was adopted for the analysis of the system performance and the exergy consumption, which takes advantage of the visual expression of the heat/work exchange and the enthalpy change, and is convenient for the calculation of the coefficient of performance and exergy consumptions. Take a heat pump water heater with refrigerant of R22 for example, the proposed method was systematically introduced, and the fitting formulas of the effective thermodynamic temperatures were given as demonstration. The results show that the proposed method has advantage and well application foreground in the performance simulation and estimation under the variable working conditions.
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Chen, Z., Xie, W., Hu, P. et al. An effective thermodynamic transformation analysis method for actual irreversible cycle. Sci. China Technol. Sci. 56, 2188–2193 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-013-5298-y
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