Since Lucas is an engineer familiar with thermodynamics. He decided to create his own heat engine at home to avoid paying for electricity. He created a smalI, makeshift heat engine for trial. The combustion of his fuel. diesel, reaches a temperature of 750°C, while waste heat is disposed to the atmosphere at 50°C. He, then connected a generator and a heat pump to the heat engine to check the amount of power being produced. Assume that the heat pump will be used to warm his room to 25°C, while the outside temperature is at 5°C. Lucas' rooms loses 85,000 kJ/hr of heat. And, 25% of the heat engine's power output goes to the heat pump. How much diesel (in kg) needs to be burned by the heat engine to maintain the temperature in Lucas' room? Assume carnot heat engine and heat pump. If the natural gas has a heating value of 22,000 BTU/lb.

Since Lucas is an engineer familiar with thermodynamics. He decided to create his own heat engine at home to avoid paying for electricity. He created a smalI, makeshift heat engine for trial. The combustion of his fuel. diesel, reaches a temperature of 750°C, while waste heat is disposed to the atmosphere at 50°C. He, then connected a generator and a heat pump to the heat engine to check the amount of power being produced. Assume that the heat pump will be used to warm his room to 25°C, while the outside temperature is at 5°C. Lucas' rooms loses 85,000 kJ/hr of heat. And, 25% of the heat engine's power output goes to the heat pump. How much diesel (in kg) needs to be burned by the heat engine to maintain the temperature in Lucas' room? Assume carnot heat engine and heat pump. If the natural gas has a heating value of 22,000 BTU/lb.

Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technology (MindTap Course List)

8th Edition

ISBN:9781305578296

Author:John Tomczyk, Eugene Silberstein, Bill Whitman, Bill Johnson

Publisher:John Tomczyk, Eugene Silberstein, Bill Whitman, Bill Johnson

Chapter44: Geothermal Heat Pumps

Section: Chapter Questions

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Since Lucas is an engineer familiar with thermodynamics. He decided to create his own heat engine at home to avoid paying for electricity. He created a small, makeshift heat engine for trial. The combustion of his fuel, diesel, reaches a temperature of 750°C, while waste heat is disposed to the atmosphere at 50°C.He, then connected a generator and a heat pump to the heat engine to check the amount of power being produced. Assume that the heat pump will be used to warm his room to 25°C, while the outside temperature is at 5°C. Lucas’ rooms loses 85,000 kJ/hr of heat. And, 25% of the heat engine’s power output goes to the heat pump. How much diesel (in kg) needs to be burned by the heat engine to maintain the temperature in Lucas’ room? Assume carnot heat engine and heat pump. If the natural gas has a heating value of 22,000 BTU/lb. *Round off all answers to four decimal places*