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Reply to ”Comment on ‘Recent progress in thermodynamics of radiation—Exergy of radiation, effective temperature of photon and entropy constant of photon’”

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Two counterexamples in Liu’s comment on ‘Recent Progress in Thermodynamics of Radiation—Exergy of radiation, effective temperature of photon and entropy constant of photon’ are analyzed and the incorrect applications of the related concepts are indicated. The similarities and differences between the concepts of the effective temperature of photon, the exergy of spectral radiation, the entropy constant of photon and the macroscopic concepts of temperature, exergy, and entropy are further discussed. The duality of radiant energy, micro-state quantum characteristic and macro-state thermal characteristic is presented.

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  1. Department of Thermal Science and Energy Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, China

    ZeShao Chen, SongPing Mo & Peng Hu

  2. Faculty of Material and Energy, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China

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Chen, Z., Mo, S. & Hu, P. Reply to ”Comment on ‘Recent progress in thermodynamics of radiation—Exergy of radiation, effective temperature of photon and entropy constant of photon’”. Sci. China Technol. Sci. 53, 878–880 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-010-0085-5

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