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What is the maximum rate of heat transferred to the house (in Btu/min)? What is the rate of heat removed from ambient air by the heat pump? Final answers must be in Btu/min

Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technology (MindTap Course List)

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Chapter44: Geothermal Heat Pumps

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Mechanisms of heat transfer

Heat transfer is an essential discipline in thermal engineering that deals with the transfer, conversion, usability, and creation of heat or thermal energy. Transfer of heat occurs through various mechanisms like conduction, convection, radiation, and change of phases. All these mechanisms have distinct characteristics, but these mechanisms can simultaneously occur in an identical system.

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A Carnot heat engine is used to drive a heat pump to maintain the heat of a small building. The HE receives heat from at 1600 °F reservoir at a rate of 1800 Btu/min and rejects heat into ambient air at 32°F. From the same ambient air at 32 °F, the heat pump removes heat to maintain the temperature of the building at 70 °F. What is the maximum rate of heat transferred to the house (in Btu/min)? What is the rate of heat removed from ambient air by the heat pump? Final answers must be in Btu/min.

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