A Rational Approach to Reversibility via Carnot’s Lost-Work

Jose C. Iniguez

International Journal of Chemistry, 2020, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-15

Abstract: The reversibility definition emerging from Carnot’s ‘lost-work’ notion or, equivalently, from considerations of optimal efficiency and lack of dissipation is here qualified as a rational alternative to that which based on Planck’s constant total-entropy criterion resorts to either a sequence of equilibrium states or the action of infinitesimal forces for the definition of the reversible path.

Keywords: reversibility; equilibrium; quasistaticity; efficiency; lost-work; driving forces (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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