Effect of Heat Leak and Finite Thermal Capacity on the Optimal Configuration of a Two-Heat-Reservoir Heat Engine for Another Linear Heat Transfer Law

Tong Zheng,Chih Wu,Lingen Chen,Fengrui Sun

doi:10.3390/e5050519

Abstract

Based on a model of a two-heat-reservoir heat engine with a finite high-temperature source and bypass heat leak, the optimal configuration of the cycle is found for the fixed cycle period with another linear heat transfer law . The finite thermal capacity source without heat leak makes the configuration of the cycle to a class of generalized Carnot cycle. The configuration of the cycle with heat leak and finite thermal capacity source is different from others.

Highlights

The editors were recently made aware that a paper published in Entropy in 2003 [1] exhibited characteristics of duplication and self-plagiarism
Authors reused parts of their previous publications that appeared in Open Systems & Information Dynamics [2], Applied Thermal Engineering [3] and Energy Conversion and Management [4]
Similar text parts have been duplicated in several other publications by the same authors [5,6]

Summary

Introduction

The editors were recently made aware that a paper published in Entropy in 2003 [1] exhibited characteristics of duplication and self-plagiarism. Discussing the situation with the authors, they have offered to retract this paper.

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