Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (Cheg6121) : Review of Basic Thermodynamics
Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (Cheg6121) : Review of Basic Thermodynamics
Thermodynamics (ChEg6121)
Chapter 1
Review of Basic Thermodynamics
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Thermodynamics and Energy
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Conservation of energy principle:
One of the most fundamental laws of
nature
Figure 1. Change of PE to KE
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Application Areas of Thermodynamics
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Systems and Control Volumes
System: A quantity of matter or a region in space chosen for
study. E.g. reaction vessel, distillation column, or a heat
engine.
Surroundings: The mass or region outside the system,
separated from the system by boundaries.
Boundary: The real or imaginary surface that separates the
system from its surroundings.
The boundary of a system can be fixed or movable.
Systems may be considered to be closed or open.
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Open system (Control Volume)
It usually encloses a device that involves mass flow such as a
chemical reactor, compressor, turbine, or nozzle.
Both mass and energy can cross the boundary of a control
volume.
The boundaries of a control volume is called Control surface, It
can be real or imaginary.
feed
Reactor
Product
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Properties of a System
Property: Any characteristic of a system; E.g. pressure P, temperature T,
volume V, and mass m.
Properties are considered to be either
intensive or extensive.
Intensive properties: Those that are
independent of the mass of a system, such
as temperature, pressure, and density.
Extensive properties: whose values depend
on the size or extent of the system. (total
mass, total volume, total momentum)
Specific properties: Extensive properties per
unit mass. (specific volume v=V/m, specific
total energy e=E/m)
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Thermal equilibrium: If the temperature is the same throughout the
entire system – no heat exchange occurs within the system.
Mechanical equilibrium: If there is no change in pressure at any point
of the system with time.
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The zeroth law of Thermodynamics
If two bodies are in thermal equilibrium with a third body, they are
also in thermal equilibrium with each other.
By replacing the third body with a thermometer, the zeroth law can
be restated as two bodies are in thermal equilibrium if both have the
same temperature reading even if they are not in contact.
Figure 6. Two bodies reaching thermal equilibrium after being brought into contact in an isolated enclosure.
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Process and Cycle
Process: Any change that a system
undergoes from one equilibrium state to
another.
Can be visualized using Process
diagrams plotted by employing
thermodynamic properties as
coordinates.
Some common properties that are used
as coordinates are temperature T,
pressure P, and volume V (or specific
volume v).
Cycle: A system is said to have undergone a
cycle if it returns to its initial state at the
end of the process.
Figure 7. The P-V diagram of a compression
process.
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The prefix iso- is often used to designate a process for
which a particular property remains constant.
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The Steady-Flow Process
The term steady implies no change with
time. The opposite of steady is unsteady,
or transient.
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The First Law of Thermodynamics
• The first law of thermodynamics is a statement of the conservation of
energy.
• The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can neither be
created nor destroyed during a process; it can only change from one
form to another.
• Conservation of energy (The first law of thermodynamics) can be
expressed :
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Closed system
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The First Law of Thermodynamics for flow process:
Consider a fluid flowing through from section 1 to section 2:
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The quantitative definition of entropy requires the following
specifications:
1. The amount of heat transferred
2. The temperature level at which the transfer occurs
3. The nature of the process, whether reversible or irreversible
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Areas of Application
The second law may be used to identify the direction of
processes.
The second law also asserts that energy has quality as well as
quantity.
The first law is concerned with the quantity of energy and the
transformations of energy from one form to another with no regard
to its quality. The second law provides the necessary means to
determine the quality as well as the degree of degradation of
energy during a process.
The second law of thermodynamics is also used in determining
the theoretical limits for the performance of commonly used
engineering systems, such as heat engines and refrigerators, as
well as predicting the degree of completion of chemical reactions.
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Heat engines
• The devices that convert heat to
work.
They receive heat from a high-
temperature source (solar energy, oil
furnace, nuclear reactor, etc.).
They convert part of this heat to work
(usually in the form of a rotating
shaft.)
They reject the remaining waste heat
to a low-temperature sink (the
atmosphere, rivers, etc.).
They operate on a cycle.
• Heat engines and other cyclic devices usually involve a fluid to and
from which heat is transferred while undergoing a cycle. This fluid is
called the working fluid.
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Steam Power Plant-Rankine Cycle
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Ideal Rankine Cycles
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Energy Analysis of the Ideal Rankine Cycle
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Example 10.3 – Boles and Cengel
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Exergy / Availability: A Measure of Work Potential
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At the dead state
1. A system is at the same temperature and pressure of its
surroundings (in thermal and mechanical equilibrium).
2. There are no unbalanced magnetic, electrical and surface
tension effects between the system and its surroundings
(mechanical equilibrium).
3. It has zero kinetic and potential energy relative to its
surroundings (zero velocity and zero elevation above a
reference level).
4. It does not react with the surroundings (chemically inert).
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Work = f (initial state, process path, final state)
• Hence to maximize the work output
The process to be executed is reversible.
The final state is a dead state.
A system will deliver the maximum possible work as it
undergoes a reversible process from the specified initial state to
the state of its surroundings, i.e., the dead state.
Exergy does not represent the amount of work that a work-
producing device will actually deliver upon installation. Rather,
it represents the upper limit on the amount of work a device can
deliver without violating any thermodynamic laws.
The difference between exergy and the actual work delivered by
a device represents the room Engineers have for improvement.
Exergy of a system at a specified state depends on the
conditions of the surroundings (the dead state) as well as the
properties of the system.
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Why we study exergy?
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Exergy Transfer from a Furnace
Example: Consider a large furnace that can transfer heat at a
temperature of 1111 K at a steady rate of 3165 kJ/s. Determine
the rate of exergy flow associated with this heat transfer.
Assume an environment temperature of 298 K.
Solution: The furnace in this example can be modeled as a heat
reservoir that supplies heat indefinitely at a constant
temperature. The exergy of this heat energy is its useful work
potential, that is, the maximum possible amount of work that
can be extracted from it. This corresponds to the amount of
work that a reversible heat engine operating between the
furnace and the environment can produce.
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The thermal efficiency of this reversible heat engine is
That is, a heat engine can convert, at best, 73.2 percent of the heat
received from this furnace to work. Thus, the exergy of this furnace is
equivalent to the power produced by the reversible heat engine:
Discussion Notice that 26.8 percent of the heat transferred from the
furnace is not available for doing work. The portion of energy that
cannot be converted to work is called unavailable energy. Unavailable
energy is simply the difference between the total energy of a system at a
specified state and the exergy of that energy.
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Reversible work and irreversibility
The property exergy serves as a valuable tool in determining the
quality of energy and comparing the work potentials of different
energy sources or systems.
The evaluation of exergy alone, however, is not sufficient for
studying engineering devices operating between two fixed states.
This is because when evaluating exergy, the final state is always
assumed to be the dead state, which is hardly ever the case for actual
engineering systems.
The isentropic efficiencies are also of limited use because the exit
state of the model (isentropic) process is not the same as the actual
exit state and it is limited to adiabatic processes.
In this section, we describe two quantities that are related to the
actual initial and final states of processes and serve as valuable tools
in the thermodynamic analysis of components or systems. These two
quantities are the reversible work and irreversibility (or exergy
destruction).
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Reversible Work
• Wrev (reversible work): the maximum amount of useful work that
can be produced (or the minimum work that needs to be supplied)
as a system undergoes a process between the given initial and final
states.
• This is the useful work output (or input) obtained (or expended)
when the process between the initial and final states is executed in
a totally reversible manner.
• When the final state is the dead state, the reversible work equals
exergy
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Irreversibility, I
• Any difference between the reversible work Wrev and the useful
work Wu is due to the irreversibilities present during the process, and
this difference is called irreversibility I.
• The irreversibility is equivalent to the exergy destroyed. It
represents the energy that could have been converted into work but
was instead wasted.
To have high system efficiency, we want ‘I’ to be as small as
possible.
(work output device, like a turbine)
or
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For a totally reversible process, the actual and reversible work
terms are identical, and thus the irreversibility is zero. This is
expected since totally reversible processes generate no
entropy.
Irreversibility is a positive quantity for all actual (irreversible)
processes since Wrev ≥ Wu for work producing devices and
Wrev ≤ Wu for work-consuming devices.
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Revised efficiency definition
Wnet
Thermal th
Qin
Wactual
Isentropic s
Wisentropic
Wu
2 nd
Law II
Wrev
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Revised efficiency definition
• The second law efficiency for heat engines can also be expressed as :
• The ηth,rev can be calculated using the numerical values of the hot and
cold reservoir temperature values :
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Second law efficiency and system dependence
Second-law efficiency:
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Integrating from the given state to dead state
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• Exergy of a closed system, per unit mass φ, can be expressed as :
• (For system with kinetic and potential energies) 2
V
u uo Po v vo To s so gZ
2
• This gives us the maximum work we could possibly get out of a system.
• Usually we will be more interested in the change in exergy from the
beginning to end of a process (i.e. Δφ)
• For single mass stream:
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Exergy of a flow system
The above equation is known as the flow exergy, Ѱ, or ѱ (per unit mass)
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Exergy of a flow system
The corresponding flow exergy change per unit mass will be:
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Practice Problems:
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Fundamental property relations
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Property relations for homogeneous phases:
Primary properties: P, V, T, S (pressure, specific volume,
temperature, entropy)
Derived properties: U, H, A, G (internal energy, enthalpy,
Helmholtz energy, Gibbs free energy)
where,
dWrev PdV
dQrev TdS ……….. 1.A.3
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Enthalpy (H):
The relation between enthalpy and internal energy is:
H U PV ……….. 1. A.5
substitute Eq. 1.A.4 for dU, and expand the differential d(PV),
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Helmholtz energy (A): measure of the amount of energy you have to put in to
create a system once the spontaneous energy transfer to the sytem from the
environment is accounted for
substitute Eq. 1.A.4 for dU, and expand the differential d(TS),
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Gibbs Free energy (G): The net energy contribution for a system created in
environment temperature T from a negligible initial volume
substitute Eq. 1.A.7 for dH, and expand the differential d(TS),
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Therefore we have:
dU TdS PdV
U Q W
H U PV dH TdS VdP
A U TS dA PdV SdT
G H TS
dG VdP SdT ……….. 1.A
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Canonical variables: The pair of primary variables in which the
thermodynamic potentials can be expressed in. These are important because
when the thermodynamic potentials are expressed in its primary
variables, all of the thermodynamic properties of the system can be
calculated
Canonical variables
dU TdS PdV U U ( S ,V ) S, V
dH TdS VdP H H ( S , P) S, P
dG VdP SdT G G( P, T ) P, T
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Maxwell’s equations
Criteria of exactness:
Thermodynamic properties are continuous point functions and have
exact differentials.
A property of a single component system may be mathematically
written as z = z(x,y). Eg., P = P(T,v)…. Pressure is a function of
temperature and specific volume.
The total differential of z is written as
……….. 1.B.1
……….. 1. B.2
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where,
……….. 1. B.3
……….. 1. B.4
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The criteria of exactness can be applied to the fundamental
property relations (Eqs.1.A) to get the Maxwell’s equations.
T P
……….. 1.B.6
V S S V
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Using Enthalpy equation:
dz Mdx Ndy
Here, M = T, N = V, x = S, y = P
T V
P S S P ……….. 1.B.7
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Using Helmholtz energy Using Gibbs free energy
equation: equation:
P S V S
T V V T T P P T
……….. 1.B.8 ……….. 1.B.9
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Therefore we have:
T P
V S S V
dU TdS PdV
T V
dH TdS VdP
P S S P
dA PdV SdT P S
dG VdP SdT T V V T
V S ……….. 1.B
T P P T
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Maxwell relations are quite important, for two reasons.
First, they show us that derivatives of thermodynamic
parameters are not completely independent. This can serve
as a consistency check in both experiments and in pen-and-
paper analysis.
Second, they provide a method to express derivatives involving
difficult-to-measure quantities in terms of ones that are readily
accessible experimentally
How does one measure the entropy or chemical potential from
experiments? These kinds of quantities are not usually directly
accessible in the lab.
What we can measure, typically, are mechanical quantities like
pressure, bulk quantities like volume and density, and
thermal properties like temperature and heat flow
Maxwell relations enable us to express experimentally-
inaccessible quantities in terms of the measurable ones just listed
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1. C. Thermodynamic properties as functions
of temperature and pressure
The most useful property relations for the enthalpy and entropy of a
homogeneous phase result when these are expressed as functions of
and P. What we need to know is how H and S vary with temperature
and pressure. In general, H=H(T,P) and S=S(T,P).
Therefore, we can write the full differential equation as,
H H
dH dT dP and dS S dT S dP
T P P T T P P T
The following derivatives has to be evaluated as functions ……….. 1.C.1
of measurable quantities:
H S H S
, , ,
T P T P P T P T
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Temperature derivatives:
For enthalpy:
We know that the differential of enthalpy at constant pressure is the
‘Heat capacity’, given as: H
Cp ……….. 1.C.2
T P
S Cp
……….. 1.C.4
T P T
This is the equation for Cp in relation to entropy.
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Pressure derivatives:
For enthalpy:
We have, the equation for enthalpy (Eq.1.A.7) dH TdS VdP
Dividing Eq. 1.A.7 with dP at constant T:
H S
T V ……….. 1.C.5
P T P T
For entropy: pressure derivative of entropy can be obtained directly for
Maxwell’s equation Eq.1.B.9.
S V
……….. 1.C.6
P T T P
Substituting Eq.1.C.5 in Eq. 1.C.4, we get:
H V
V T ……….. 1.C.7
P T T P
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Substituting the equations for partial derivatives (Eqs. 1.C.2, 1.C.4, 1.C.6,
1.C.7) in Eqs. 1.C.1, we get:
H H S S
dH dT dP dS dT dP
T P P T T P P T
V dT V
dH C p dT V T dP dS C p dP
T P T T P
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Other useful relations for H and S:
1 V
We have the volumetric expansivity (β) written as:
V T P
Equations 1.C.6 and 1.C.7 can now be expressed as: ……….. 1.C.10
S H
V (1 T )V
P T P T
……….. 1.C.11 ……….. 1.C.12
dH C p dT V (1 T )dP dS C p
dT
VdP
T
……….. 1.C.13 ……….. 1.C.14
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Internal energy as function of T and V:
Consider internal energy expressed as a function of T and V.
U U
dU dT dV ……….. 1.C.15
T V V T
Recall the definition of the specific heat at constant volume
U ……….. 1.C.16
CV
T V
U
Then dU becomes dU CV dT dV
V T ……….. 1.C.17
U
should be evaluated in terms of P-V-T data.
V T
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Home task:
P
Express equation 1.C.17 as dU CV dT T P dV
T V
……….. 1.C.18
Hint:
Consider general equation for dU, dU TdS PdV
Expand the differential dS as a function of T and V, use Maxwell’s
Equations, and obtain the Eq.1.C.18
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