The Refrigerator With a COP Greater Than One
The refrigerator removed 6 kW of heat using 2 kW of work. A COP of 3 was correct, not impossible.
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The refrigerator removed 6 kW of heat using 2 kW of work. A COP of 3 was correct, not impossible.
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The refrigerator removed 6 kW of heat using 2 kW of work. A COP of 3 was correct, not impossible.
The turbine power came from a 600 kJ/kg enthalpy drop, not from subtracting internal energies blindly.
The gas temperature rose from 300 K to 450 K. The pressure did not scale with Celsius temperature.
Practice the calculations, assumptions, constraints, and failure modes that appear around this topic. Each question here is designed to test whether you can apply the concept when the obvious calculation is not the whole engineering decision.