Friday, 6 July 2018

thermodynamics - Carnot efficiency, coefficient of performance for a refrigerator


I was reading that a new type of refrigerator might reach a coefficient of performance (COP) of 10. This seems quite the achievement and the authors state that their approach might achieve a Carnot efficiency of 75%. (I could not get hold of the original source as it is a part of an expensive book series "Zimm C, Jastrab A, Sternberg A, Pecharsky V K, Gschneidner K Jr, Osborne M and Anderson I 1998 Adv. Cryog. Eng. 43 1759".)


Now I am a bit confused. Wikipedia states that the COP should be the inverse of the Carnot efficiency but than these numbers do not fit together or am I missing something?




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