European Physical Journal Plus, vol.130, no.4, pp.1-8, 2015 (SCI-Expanded)
© 2015, Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.In this paper, an irreversible quantum Diesel refrigerator for a 1D-box system is described and analyzed. The exergetic sustainability index that is the rate of the exergy output from the system to the total exergetic losses including exergy destruction and exergy loss from the system is applied for the first time to an irreversible quantum engine. Other thermodynamic parameters including work input, cooling load, exergy destruction, COP and exergy efficiency are investigated according to the cycle temperatures and numerical results are presented.