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Can a real heat pump have higher COP than the COP of the Carnot heat pump?

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Answer:

No

Step-by-step explanation:

As we know that a Carnot heat pump is an ideal heat pump because it have all processes reversible.But on the other hand a real heat pump do not all processes reversible .That is why the COP of real pump can not be greater than the COP of Carnot heat pump.

The COP of Carnot heat pump depends only on the temperature limits of reservoir it does not depends on the working fluids.

COP of heat pump given as follows


COP=(T_H)/(T_H-T_L)

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