A cycle exhibits the Carnot efficiency Hot Carnot efficiency of a power cycle: reservoir H Te mmax 1- (Temperatue in Kelvin or Boundary →Wevcle=QH-Qc Rankine scale) Cold Carnot cycle,Ericsson cycle, reservoir Stirling cycle,… four internally reversible processes: two adiabatic processes two isothermal processes 3 _TH C 上游充通大 April 18,2018 2 SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITYApril 18, 2018 2 A cycle exhibits the Carnot efficiency Carnot cycle, Ericsson cycle, Stirling cycle, …. Carnot efficiency of a power cycle: four internally reversible processes: two adiabatic processes + two isothermal processes (Temperatue in Kelvin or Rankine scale)