Explores the evolution of COP trends, challenges in heat pump cycles, compressor technology, high-speed bearings, and the potential of oil-free turbocompressors.
Covers the introduction to geothermal energy, including advantages, drawbacks, suitable applications, efficiencies, the underground resource, heat sources, and historical aspects.
Explores thermodynamic identities, entropy changes, and thermal machine efficiencies, including Carnot and Otto cycles, heat pumps, and heating methods.
