Entransy and entropy analyses of heat pump systems

In this paper, heat pump systems are analyzed with entransy increase and entropy generation. The extremum entransy increase principle is developed. When the equivalent temperatures of the high and low temperature heat sources are fixed, the theoretical analyses and numerical results both show that the maximum COP leads to the maximum entransy increase rate for fixed input power, while it leads to the minimum entransy increase rate for fixed heat flow absorbed from the low temperature heat source. The minimum entropy generation principle shows that the minimum entropy generation rate always leads to the maximum COP for fixed input power or fixed heat flow absorbed from the low temperature heat source when the equivalent thermodynamic forces of the high and low temperature heat sources are given. Further discussions show that only the entransy increase rate always increases with increasing heat flow rate into the high temperature heat source for the discussed cases.

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