Barranco-Jiménez, M. A. and Angulo-Brown, F. (2003) A simple model on the influence of the greenhouse effect on the efficiency of solar-to-wind energy conversion. Il nuovo cimento C, 26 (5). pp. 535-552. ISSN 1826-9885
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Abstract
In the present paper we study the Gordon and Zarmi model (Am. J. Phys., 57 (1989)995)for dealing with the earth’s wind energy as a solar-driven Carnot-like heat engine, incorporating the role of the greenhouse effect on the performance of this heat engine model, following the De Vos approach. We find that when the greenhouse effect is considered only at the low-temperature half part of the cycle, the efficiency of the conversion of solar energy into wind energy strongly depends on the greenhouse effect under both maximum-power and maximum-ecological-function conditions. We also analyze the De Vos-van der Wel model corresponding to the so-called two-reservoir case and find that the efficiency of conversion of solar energy into wind energy under maximum ecological function reaches a reasonable value within the interval of values reported in the literature.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Atmosphere ; Thermal radiation ; Other topics in heat transfer |
| Subjects: | 500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 530 Fisica |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Mar 2020 16:33 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Mar 2020 16:33 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/15176 |
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