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Find the second law efficiency of the heat pump has a coefficient of performance of 2 using a power input of 2 kW. Its low temperature is To and the high temperature is 80°C, with an ambient at To.

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The second law efficiency is a ratio of exergies namely what we want out divided by what we have to put in. Exergy from first term on RHS Eq.

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