The internal combustion engine; being a text book on gas, oil and petrol engines, for the use of students and engineers (1909)
Wimperis, Harry Egerton, 1876- · New York, Van Nostrand · leaf 42
ant and the tempera-ture falls to 4 ; then from 4 to 1 the temperature remainssteady, whilst the gas gives up its heat and the entropydiminishes from 4 to 1, so bringing the gas back to itsoriginal state, and ready to go through the cycle again.This is the well-known Carnot Cycle, which is so often… … Fig... - area 2, 3, 6, 5 represents the heat taken in by the engine, and the smaller area 1, 4, 6, 5 that rejected. „ . heat utilized area 1, 2, 3, 4 So that the efficiency or-— ,. - = _ 0 , - heat supplied area 2, 6, b, 5 2 1and this ratio is obviously equal to ^— o i.e. to max. temp, of…
Internal combustion engines
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