Irreversibility


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Irreversibility

crossing the Rubicon
Caesar passes point of no return into Italy. [Rom. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 941]
Humpty Dumpty
all the King’s men failed to reassemble him. [Nuns. Rhyme: Mother Goose, 40]
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Historically, the property of irreversibility indicated above is known to be related to the Carnot's second Law of Classical Thermodynamics.
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The results obtained show that the greater the temperature difference between either the condenser and the environment, or the evaporator and the cold room, the higher the irreversibility rate.
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The equation 21 is used to determine the relative irreversibility of the systems.
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