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Profitable handling of extracted energy in accordance with the energy conversion doctrine has served well expediency for industrialization. Despite that success, this disquisition refutes the energy conversion doctrine in favor of entropy-growth-potential-centric (EGP-centric) approach that is necessary for achieving efficiency rather than expediency. With the new theory of heat , this chapter outlines a philosophical prelude to engineering application of thermodynamics. Though decision is made to separate the project of a textbook on engineering thermodynamics from this disquisition so that details of the textbook project will be worked out after further deliberation, such an engineering thermodynamics text will articulate the distinctive characterization of engineering in terms of physical necessity and causal necessity . It is also anticipated that causal necessity addressed in the textbook project will incorporate solutions, in addition to conventional energy solutions, based on natural EGP, i.e., renewable energy sources (RESs).
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Wang, LS. (2020). A Theory of Heat as Prelude to Engineering Thermodynamics. In: A Treatise of Heat and Energy. Mechanical Engineering Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05746-6_10
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