You are to expand a gas adiabatically from 3 MPa and 300C to 80 kPa in a piston–cylinder device. Which of the two choices – air with an isentropic expansion efficiency of 90 percent or neon with an isentropic expansion efficiency of 80 percent – will produce the most work?

You are to expand a gas adiabatically from 3 MPa and 300C to 80 kPa in a piston–cylinder device. Which of the two choices – air with an isentropic expansion efficiency of 90 percent or neon with an isentropic expansion efficiency of 80 percent – will produce the most work?

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You are to expand a gas adiabatically from 3 MPa
and 300C to 80 kPa in a piston–cylinder device. Which of
the two choices – air with an isentropic expansion efficiency
of 90 percent or neon with an isentropic expansion efficiency
of 80 percent – will produce the most work?

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