This video shows the development and application of an ideal fuel-burning engine defined as the Wicks Cycle.
Generations of thermodynamic students have learned the Carnot Cycle is the ideal engine, but it is not the ideal fuel-burning engine. Virtually all engines burn fuel to produce the high temperature heat, which is released over the entire range, from maximum to ambient temperature. Therefore, this video shows why the Carnot is not ideal, and derives the Wicks Cycle as the ideal fuel burning engine.
Finally, it uses the Wicks cycle as the standard for fuel-burning Carnot, Rankine, Brayton, and combined cycles.
We recommend all future thermo books include the Wicks Cycle, as has been done by Professor Chih Wu, in his textbook Thermodynamics of Heat Powered Cycles (2007). This video shows the development and application of an ideal fuel-burning engine defined as the Wicks Cycle.
Generations of thermodynamic students have learned the Carnot Cycle is the ideal engine, but it is not the ideal fuel-burning engine. Virtually all engines burn fuel to produce the high temperature heat, which is released over the entire range, from maximum to ambient temperature. Therefore, this video shows why the Carnot is not ideal, and derives the Wicks Cycle as the ideal fuel burning engine.
Finally, it uses the Wicks cycle as the standard for fuel-burning Carnot, Rankine, Brayton, and combined cycles.
We recommend all future thermo books include the Wicks Cycle, as has been done by Professor Chih Wu, in his textbook Thermodynamics of Heat Powered Cycles (2007).
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