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  • Thumbnail for Heat capacity
    Heat capacity or thermal capacity is a physical property of matter, defined as the amount of heat to be supplied to an object to produce a unit change...
    19 KB (2,773 words) - 12:03, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Heat pump
    A heat pump is a device that consumes work (or electricity) to transfer heat from a cold heat sink to a hot heat sink. Specifically, the heat pump transfers...
    74 KB (8,134 words) - 12:52, 15 June 2024
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    relative humidity) by the evaporation of water into it, with the latent heat supplied by the parcel. A wet-bulb thermometer indicates a temperature close...
    28 KB (3,555 words) - 05:12, 30 May 2024
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    In thermodynamics, heat is the thermal energy transferred between systems due to a temperature difference. In colloquial use, heat sometimes refers to...
    74 KB (10,916 words) - 17:48, 12 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stirling engine
    temporary heat store by retaining heat within the machine rather than dumping it into the heat sink, thereby increasing its efficiency. The heat is supplied from...
    95 KB (11,114 words) - 08:02, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Heat recovery ventilation
    energy demand. A heat recovery system is designed to supply conditioned air to the occupied space to maintain a certain temperature. A heat recovery system...
    35 KB (5,168 words) - 19:47, 17 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Power supply
    The power supply of an electrical system tends to generate heat. The higher the efficiency, the less heat is generated by the power supply. There are...
    29 KB (3,905 words) - 12:30, 14 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Latent heat
    transition, like melting or condensation. Latent heat can be understood as hidden energy which is supplied or extracted to change the state of a substance...
    12 KB (1,547 words) - 12:58, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cold district heating
    option for a sustainable, potentially greenhouse gas and emission-free heat supply. As of 2019, the fifth generation heating networks described here have...
    22 KB (2,979 words) - 02:46, 4 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Enthalpy
    Enthalpy (redirect from Total heat)
    increase and heat supply, we return to the first law for closed systems, with the physics sign convention: dU = δQ − δW, where the heat δQ is supplied by conduction...
    48 KB (6,199 words) - 21:02, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Heat exchanger
    A heat exchanger is a system used to transfer heat between a source and a working fluid. Heat exchangers are used in both cooling and heating processes...
    68 KB (9,315 words) - 17:03, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Heat treating
    Heat treating (or heat treatment) is a group of industrial, thermal and metalworking processes used to alter the physical, and sometimes chemical, properties...
    45 KB (5,793 words) - 01:06, 29 March 2024
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    cooling. The supply of high-temperature heat first drives a gas or steam turbine-powered generator. The resulting low-temperature waste heat is then used...
    62 KB (6,934 words) - 04:16, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Water heating
    cauldrons, pots, or coppers. These metal vessels that heat a batch of water do not produce a continual supply of heated water at a preset temperature. Rarely...
    45 KB (6,182 words) - 12:36, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Heat transfer
    Heat transfer is a discipline of thermal engineering that concerns the generation, use, conversion, and exchange of thermal energy (heat) between physical...
    66 KB (8,501 words) - 08:08, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Primeo Energie
    in North-West Switzerland and Alsace. The company operates 167 local heat supply systems in Switzerland, Alsace and South Germany. The engineer Fritz...
    13 KB (1,016 words) - 18:45, 13 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Heat pipe
    A heat pipe is a heat-transfer device that employs phase transition to transfer heat between two solid interfaces. At the hot interface of a heat pipe...
    55 KB (7,267 words) - 01:26, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Laws of thermodynamics
    energy of the system (ΔUsystem) is equal to the difference between the heat supplied to the system (Q) and the work (W) done by the system on its surroundings...
    20 KB (2,858 words) - 16:40, 1 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for District heating
    energy efficiency of the system, with supply side temperatures of 70 °C and lower. Potential heat sources are waste heat from industry, CHP plants burning...
    130 KB (13,950 words) - 16:55, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar combisystem
    solar thermal heat is used. The remaining heat requirement is supplied by one or more auxiliary sources in order to maintain the heat supply once the solar...
    11 KB (1,082 words) - 18:28, 10 February 2023
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