TY - JOUR
TI - Models for optimum thermo-ecological criteria of actual thermal cycles
AU - Açikkalp Emin
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2013
VL - 17
IS - 3
SP - 915
EP - 930
PT - Article
AB - In this study, the ecological optimization point of irreversible thermal  cycles (refrigerator, heat pump and power cycles) was investigated. The  importance of ecological optimization is to propose a way to use fuels and  energy source more efficiently because of an increasing energy need and  environmental pollution. It provides this by maximizing obtained (or  minimizing supplied) work and minimizing entropy generation for irreversible  (actual) thermal cycles. In this research, ecological optimization was  defined for all basic irreversible thermal cycles, by using the first and  second laws of thermodynamics. Finally, the ecological optimization was  defined in thermodynamic cycles and results were given to show the effects of  the cycles’ ecological optimization point, efficiency, COP and power output  (or input), and exergy destruction.