Kelvin-Plank's statement deals with

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  1. Conservation of work
  2. Conservation of heat
  3. conversion of heat into work
  4. conversion of work into heat

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Option 3 : conversion of heat into work
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Kelvin-Plank gives the concept of heat engine hence, it is a conversion of heat into work. According to Kelvin-Planck statement of second law “It is impossible to construct a device (engine) operating in a cycle that will produce no effect other than extraction of heat from a single reservoir and convert all of it into work.”

Clausius statement: It is impossible to construct a system which will operate in a cycle, transfers heat from the low-temperature reservoir (or object) to the high-temperature reservoir (or object) without any external effect or work interaction with the surrounding.

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