novel heat engine is being considered for producing work from the thermal energy  contained in the wastewater discharge from a large food-processing plant. On an average  day, 35 ° C wastewater leaves the plant and is discharged into the ocean at 1,000 gallons  per minute. If the average annual ocean temperature is 10 ° C at that location, what is the  maximum power that could be produced by this heat engine? What would be the thermal  cycle efficiency of your maximum power engine? You can assume that the heat capacity

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A novel heat engine is being considered for producing work from the thermal energy 
contained in the wastewater discharge from a large food-processing plant. On an average 
day, 35 ° C wastewater leaves the plant and is discharged into the ocean at 1,000 gallons 
per minute. If the average annual ocean temperature is 10 ° C at that location, what is the 
maximum power that could be produced by this heat engine? What would be the thermal 
cycle efficiency of your maximum power engine? You can assume that the heat capacity 
of water at constant pressure is constant at 4,200 J/kg K. 

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