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A Carnot's heat engine works between the temperatures $427^{\circ} C$ and $27^{\circ} C$. What amount of heat should it consume per second to deliver mechanical work at the rate of $1.0\, kW$ ?
A Carnot's heat engine works between the temperatures $427^{\circ} C$ and $27^{\circ} C$. What amount of heat should it consume per second to deliver mechanical work at the rate of $1.0\, kW$ ?
Updated On: Dec 17, 2025
- 0.417 kcal/s
- 4.17 kcal /s
- 41.7 kcal/s
- 0.212 kcal/s
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Solution and Explanation
The efficiency of the heat engine is
$\eta=1-\frac{T_{2}}{T_{1}}=1-\left(\frac{273+27 K}{273+427 K}\right)=\frac{4}{7}$
But $\eta=\frac{W}{\eta}=\frac{1.0 k W}{4/7}=1.75\, kW$
$=0.417\, Kcal/s$
Thus, the engine would require $417\, cal$ of heat per second, to deliver the requisite amount of work.
$\eta=1-\frac{T_{2}}{T_{1}}=1-\left(\frac{273+27 K}{273+427 K}\right)=\frac{4}{7}$
But $\eta=\frac{W}{\eta}=\frac{1.0 k W}{4/7}=1.75\, kW$
$=0.417\, Kcal/s$
Thus, the engine would require $417\, cal$ of heat per second, to deliver the requisite amount of work.
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Concepts Used:
Carnot Cycle
Carnot's Theorem:
From the second law of thermodynamics, two important results are derived where the conclusions are taken together to constitute Carnot’s theorem. It may be stated in the following forms.
- ‘No engine can be more efficient than a perfectly reversible engine working between the same two temperatures’.
- ‘The efficiency of all reversible engines, working between the same two temperatures is the same, whatever the working substances’.
Carnot’s Ideal Heat Engine
- A cylinder having perfectly non-conducting walls, a perfectly conducting base and is provided with a perfectly non-conducting piston which moves without friction in the cylinder. The cylinder contains one mole of perfect gas as the working substance.
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