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Miscellaneous scientific papers: (1881)

Rankine, William John Macquorn, 1820-1872, Millar, William J, Tait, Peter Guthrie, 1831-1901 · London, C. Griffin and company · leaf 489

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the heat is given outagain at the proper time to the working substance in order to raise its k, temperature. Supposing those twoprocesses to be carried out in atheoretically perfect manner, the re-sults as regards the economy of heatare exactly the same.* In the follow-ing examples the steam-engine… … 162 7272 = 0-2228; and the work realised peralso the same, viz. :— stroke is 68420x0-2228 = 15244 foot-pounds. The object of the following calcula-tions is to show in detail whatbecomes of the difference betweenthe whole energy expended in theform of heat and that obtained in theform of mechanical…

Physics · Heat-engines · Thermodynamics · Marine engineering

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