(a) What is the best coefficient of performance for a heat pump that has a hot reservoir

Chapter 15, Problem 41

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(a) What is the best coefficient of performance for a heat pump that has a hot reservoir temperature of 50.0C and a cold reservoir temperature of 20.0C ? (b) How much heat transfer occurs into the warm environment if 3.60107 J of work ( 10.0kW h ) is put into it? (c) If the cost of this work input is 10.0 cents/kW h , how does its cost compare with the direct heat transfer achieved by burning natural gas at a cost of 85.0 cents per therm. (A therm is a common unit of energy for natural gas and equals 1.055108 J .)

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