Chimal-Eguia Juan Carlos, Páez-Hernández Ricardo Teodoro, Pacheco-Paez Juan Carlos, Ladino-Luna Delfino
Laboratorio de Ciencias Matemáticas y Computacionales, Centro de Investigación en Computacion, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Ciudad de Mexico 07738, Mexico.
Area de Fisica de Procesos Irreversibles, Departamento de Ciencias Basicas, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, U-Azcapotzalco, Av. San Pablo 180, Col. Reynosa, Ciudad de Mexico 02200, Mexico.
Entropy (Basel). 2023 Nov 23;25(12):1575. doi: 10.3390/e25121575.
This paper presents so-called thermoelectric generators (TEGs), which are considered thermal engines that transform heat into electricity using the Seebeck effect for this purpose. By using linear irreversible thermodynamics (LIT), it is possible to study the thermodynamic properties of TEGs for three different operating regimes: maximum power output (MPO), maximum ecological function (MEF) and maximum power efficiency (MPE). Then, by considering thermoelectricty, using the correspondence between the heat capacity of a solid and the metabolic rate, and taking the generation of energy by means of the metabolism of an organism as a process out of equilibrium, it is plausible to use linear irreversible thermodynamics (LIT) to obtain some interesting results in order to understand how metabolism is generated by a particle's released energy, which explains the empirically studied allometric laws.
本文介绍了所谓的热电发电机（TEG），它们被视为热机，为此利用塞贝克效应将热量转化为电能。通过使用线性不可逆热力学（LIT），可以研究TEG在三种不同运行状态下的热力学性质：最大功率输出（MPO）、最大生态功能（MEF）和最大功率效率（MPE）。然后，考虑到热电学，利用固体热容量与代谢率之间的对应关系，并将生物体通过新陈代谢产生能量视为一个非平衡过程，利用线性不可逆热力学（LIT）来获得一些有趣的结果，以便理解新陈代谢是如何由粒子释放的能量产生的，这解释了经实证研究的异速生长定律。
