A heat pump is used to maintain a house at 25°C by extracting heat from the outside

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A heat pump is used to maintain a house at 25°C by extracting heat from the outside air on a day when the outside air temperature is 4°C. The house is estimated to lose heat at a rate of 110,000 kJ/h, and the heat pump consumes 4.75 kW of electric power when running. Is this heat pump powerful enough to do the job?
A heat pump is used to maintain a house at
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Thermodynamics An Engineering Approach

ISBN: 978-0073398174

8th edition

Authors: Yunus A. Cengel, Michael A. Boles

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