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4. Glossary – Definitions
Reverse or receiver cycles ; reverse cycles
Cold machine cycles, heat pumps, thermotransformers.
Trithermes or quadrithermes machines ; 3Tor 4T reverse cycle machines
Reverse cycle machines generally based on sorption (absorption; adsorption; chemisorption) and featuring almost exclusively thermal operation.
Irreversibilities ; irreversibilities
They result in various mechanisms for degrading noble energy (mechanical, electrical, magnetic, chemical) into degraded energy (heat).
Optimization ; optimization
Optimization requires the construction of a model, with the identification of an objective function whose maximum or minimum is sought. For the...
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