Chen, Lingen; Xiaoqin, Zhu; Sun, Fengrui; Wu, Chih - In: Applied Energy 84 (2007) 1, pp. 78-88
The optimal exergy-based ecological performance of a Newton's law generalized irreversible Carnot heat-pump, with losses due to heat-resistance, heat leak and internal irreversibility, is derived by taking into account an ecological optimization criterion as the objective function. This consists...