Knowledge in Applied Thermodynamics

Applied Thermodynamics Question Bank

Applied Thermodynamics Question Bank

THERMODYNAMICS CONCEPT

Thermodynamics, science of the relationship between heat, work, temperature, and energy. In broad terms, thermodynamics deals with the transfer of energy from one place to another and from one form to another. The key concept is that heat is a form of energy corresponding to a definite amount of mechanical work. Sir Isaac Newton. READ MORE ON THIS TOPIC philosophy of physics: Thermodynamics A concise, powerful, and general account of the time asymmetry of ordinary physical processes was gradually pieced together in the course… Heat was not formally recognized as a form of energy until about 1798, when Count Rumford (Sir Benjamin Thompson), a British military engineer, noticed that limitless amounts of heat could be generated in the boring of cannon barrels and that the amount of heat generated is proportional to the work done in turning a blunt boring tool. Rumford’s observation of the proportionality between heat generated and work done lies at the foundation of thermodynamics. Another pioneer was the French military engineer Sadi Carnot, who introduced the concept of the heat-engine cycle and the principle of reversibility in 1824. Carnot’s work concerned the limitations on the maximum amount of work that can be obtained from a steam engine operating with a high-temperature heat transfer as its driving force. Later that century, these ideas were developed by Rudolf Clausius, a German mathematician and physicist, into the first and second laws of thermodynamics, respectively. The most important laws of thermodynamics are:

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thermodynamics

we define and analyze thermodynamic limits for various traditional and work-assisted processes with finite rates, important in engineering, physics, and biology. The analysis is based on the position that in order to make thermodynamic analyses usable, it is a thermodynamic limit (e.g. a lower bound for consumption or work or heat or an upper bound for work or heat production) that must be ensured in a technology. We limit ourselves here to ‘static limits’, that is, those in steady systems. This Chapter also introduces the reader to certain controls called ‘Carnot variables’. The practical and industrial systems of interest include thermal and chemical generators of mechanical energy (engines) and the apparatus or devices in which this energy is consumed (refrigerators, heat pumps, and separators). In principle, irreversible thermodynamics is a general field suitable to evaluate such limits for processes occurring in finite time and in systems of a finite size. However, theoretical irreversible thermodynamics seldom attacks systems with explicit work flux (power) (see De Groot and Mazur, 1984 for a basic description). For the purpose of energy systems analyses, irreversible thermodynamics is most often applied in a discrete rather than a continuum form, which means that thermal fields are seldom attacked. Yet, the continua are not excluded in treatments of energy problems (Orlov and Berry, 1990, 1991a,b, 1992). A typical irreversible thermodynamics analysis of an energy system refers to a topological structure that belongs in the thermal networks (diverse units connected by appropriate links). Such structures could in principle be treated by network thermodynamics (NT; Peusner, 1986), a general field that transfers meanings and tools of electric circuit theory to macrosystems described by discrete models.