An air-conditioning system operating on the reversed Carnot cycle is required to remove heat from the house at a rate of 32 kJ/s to maintain its temperature constant at 20 °C. If the temperature of the outdoors is 35 °C, determine the power required to operate this air-conditioning system. [1.64kW]
A typical new household refrigerator consumes about 680 kWh of electricity per year, and has a coefficient of performance of 1.4. Determine the amount of heat removed by this refrigerator from the refrigerated space per year. [3427MJ/year]
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Questions taken from tutorial sheet 4 of thermodynamics.