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  2. Maximum power transfer theorem - Wikipedia

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    The theorem results in maximum power transfer from the power source to the load, but not maximum efficiency of useful power out of total power consumed. If the load resistance is made larger than the source resistance, then efficiency increases (since a higher percentage of the source power is transferred to the load), but the magnitude of the ...

  3. Maximum power principle - Wikipedia

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    Like the maximum power theorem, Odum's statement of the maximum power principle relies on the notion of 'matching', such that high-quality energy maximizes power by matching and amplifying energy (1994, pp. 262, 541): "in surviving designs a matching of high-quality energy with larger amounts of low-quality energy is likely to occur" (1994, p ...

  4. Electrical efficiency - Wikipedia

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    As a result of the maximum power theorem, devices transfer maximum power to a load when running at 50% electrical efficiency.This occurs when the load resistance (of the device in question) is equal to the internal Thevenin equivalent resistance of the power source.

  5. Maximum power - Wikipedia

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    Maximum power can refer to: Maximum power transfer theorem in electronics; Maximum power principle in systems theory; Maximum power point tracking in energy extraction, most commonly photovoltaic solar systems

  6. Impedance matching - Wikipedia

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    For example, a maximum power point tracker is used to extract the maximum power from a solar panel and efficiently transfer it to batteries, the power grid or other loads. The maximum power theorem applies to its "upstream" connection to the solar panel, so it emulates a load resistance equal to the solar panel source resistance.

  7. Thermoelectric generator - Wikipedia

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    The element's voltages increase, but so does their output resistance. The maximum power transfer theorem dictates that maximum power is delivered to a load when the source and load resistances are identically matched. For low impedance loads near zero ohms, as the generator resistance rises the power delivered to the load decreases.

  8. Second law of thermodynamics - Wikipedia

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    In a reversible or quasi-static, idealized process of transfer of energy as heat to a closed thermodynamic system of interest, (which allows the entry or exit of energy – but not transfer of matter), from an auxiliary thermodynamic system, an infinitesimal increment in the entropy of the system of interest is defined to result from an ...

  9. Talk:Maximum power transfer theorem - Wikipedia

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    2. The Maximum Power Transfer theorem, as stated by Jacobi, should be well understood not to indicate how to get maximum power transfer but how to obtain maximum efficiency. 3. There is one great example in which Maximum Power Transfer is essencial, i.e. Nyquist theorem, which models thermal noise generated by a resistor.