Besides use of reject heat for process or district heating, one way to improve overall efficiency of a power plant is to combine two different thermodynamic cycles in a combined cycle plant.
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Analogous to Hess's Law which deal with the summation of enthalpy ( ?H ) values, Bordwell thermodynamic cycles deal with the summation of Gibbs free energy ( ?G ) values.
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So, a combined cycle plant has a thermodynamic cycle that operates between the gas-turbine's high firing temperature and the waste heat temperature from the condensers of the steam cycle.
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In 1862, Clausius defined what is now known as " entropy " or the energetic effects related to irreversibility as the equivalence-values of transformations in a thermodynamic cycle.
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Some tri-cycle plants have used a combined cycle in which several thermodynamic cycles produced electricity, then a heating system was used as a condenser of the power plant's bottoming cycle.
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The Keystone Reservoir was constructed on the North Branch of Plum Creek, a tributary of Crooked Creek to provide a constant source of cooling water for the plant's thermodynamic cycle year round.
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Diesel engines and gas turbines are broadly related because they use a similar thermodynamic cycle, and both are often used ( and interchangeable ) for power generation for heating and electricity in large installations.
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The Rankine cycle does not restrict the working fluid in its definition, so the name organic cycle is simply a marketing concept and the cycle should not be regarded as a separate thermodynamic cycle.
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If you want to study the change between states that aren't in equillibrium, then you set up a thermodynamic cycle .-- BluePlatypus 14 : 00, 26 October 2006 ( UTC)
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The two common thermodynamic cycles used involve either the calculation of the free energy of free energy of fusion ( solid to a molten phase ) and the free energy of mixing ( molten to solution ).
