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A farmer runs a heat pump using 2.5 hp of power input. It keeps a chicken hatchery at a constant 86 F while the room loses 20 Btu/* to the colder outside ambient at 50 F. What is the rate of entropy generated in the heat pump? What is the rate of entropy generated in the heat loss process?

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C.V. Hatchery, steady state.

C.V. From hatchery at 86 F to the ambient 50 F. This is typically the walls and the outer thin boundary layer of air. Through this goes Q. Loss.

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