Rankine, William John Macquorn, 1820-1872, Millar, William J, Tait, Peter Guthrie, 1831-1901 · London, C. Griffin and company · leaf 422
a regenerator. The engine being without a regenerator, the diagram corresponding tothe maximum efficiency has but one form, viz., ABcd, where Be, Ad arecurves of no transmission. Hence, in this case, there must be an additionalexpansion, from the volume VB to the volume ON THERMODYNAMICS. 373 V. =… … Fig. 19. On the other hand, if the engine be provided with a perfect regenerator,any pair of curves of equal transmission passing through A and B willcomplete a diagram of maximum efficiency. The property of a pair ofthese curves being, as shown in Proposition IV., that the difference of…
