A thermal storage is made with a rock (granite) bed of 70 ft3 which is heated to

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A thermal storage is made with a rock (granite) bed of 70 ft3 which is heated to 720 R using solar energy. A heat engine receives a QH from the bed and rejects heat to the ambient at 520 R. The rock bed therefore cools down and as it reaches 520 R the process stops. Find the energy the rock bed can give out. What is the heat engine efficiency at the beginning of the process and what is it at the end of the process?
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Fundamentals of Thermodynamics

ISBN: 978-0471152323

6th edition

Authors: Richard E. Sonntag, Claus Borgnakke, Gordon J. Van Wylen

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