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A Rational Approach to Reversibility via Carnot’s Lost-Work

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  • Jose C. Iniguez

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The reversibility definition emerging from Carnot’s ‘lost-work’ notion or, equivalently, from considerations of optimal efficiency and lack of dissipation is here qualified as a rational alternative to that which based on Planck’s constant total-entropy criterion resorts to either a sequence of equilibrium states or the action of infinitesimal forces for the definition of the reversible path.

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  • Jose C. Iniguez, 2020. "A Rational Approach to Reversibility via Carnot’s Lost-Work," International Journal of Chemistry, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 12(1), pages 1-15, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:ibn:ijcjnl:v:12:y:2020:i:1:p:1-15
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    Keywords

    reversibility; equilibrium; quasistaticity; efficiency; lost-work; driving forces;
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