In the AMTEC, sodium is driven around a closed thermodynamic cycle between a high-temperature heat reservoir and a cooler reservoir at the heat rejection temperature.
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This can be tested by connecting the heat reservoirs successively to an auxiliary empirical thermometric body that starts each time at a convenient fixed intermediate temperature.
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Because of the heat reservoir of highly compressed hydrogen at its core, the planet generates nearly 70 percent more heat than it absorbs from the Sun.
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The efficiency of a quasi-static or reversible Carnot cycle depends only on the temperatures of the two heat reservoirs, and is the same, whatever the working substance.
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It was built to broad gauge specification with a 2-4-0 wheel arrangement with combustion chamber containing a large quantity of fire bricks which were to act as a heat reservoir.
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The columns of oil heaters are typically constructed as thin fins, such that the surface area of the metal columns is large relative to the volume of the oil heat reservoir.
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He also discovered that this idealized efficiency was dependent only on the temperatures of the heat reservoirs between which the engine was working, and not on the types of working fluids.
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:: " It is impossible to construct an engine which will work in a complete cycle, and produce no effect except the raising of a weight and cooling of a heat reservoir ."
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The third limb of the cycle sees the working body connected, through a wall permeable only to heat, to the heat reservoir 2, contracting and accepting energy as work from the work reservoir.
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"' Carnot's theorem "'is a formal statement of this fact : " No engine operating between two heat reservoirs can be more efficient than a Carnot engine operating between the same reservoirs ."
