Thermodynamics

What is Thermodynamics?

• It is the science that relate energy (work

and heat) to the change of system
properties.
 What is Internal Energy?
The internal energy is the energy contained within the
system.
It consists of :
1. Sensible component: which accounts for the
translational, rotational, and/or vibrational motion of the
atoms/molecules.
2. Latent component: which relates to intermolecular
forces influencing phase change between solid, liquid,
and vapor states.
3. Chemical component: which accounts for energy stored
in the chemical bonds between atoms.
4. Nuclear component: which relates to the strong bonds
within the nucleus of the atom itself.
What is Enthalpy?
What is the 0th law ?

• The zeroth law says that when two

objects are individually in thermal
equilibrium with a third object, then
they are also in equilibrium with
each other.
What is the 1st law of thermodynamics?
• The first law of thermodynamics is a version of the law
of conservation of energy.
• The First Law of Thermodynamics states that energy
cannot be created or destroyed - only converted from
one form of energy to another.
• The example is the internal combustion engine.
• The chemical energy (fuel air mixture) & the heat
(ignition) are converted into mechanical work and
some useless forms of energy ( heat coming out).
What is the equation of the 1 st law of
thermodynamics?
What is the 2nd law of thermodynamics?
• The Second Law of Thermodynamics is about the
quality of energy.
• It states that as energy is transferred or
transformed, more and more of it is wasted.
• It’s why engineers still can’t make a perfectly
efficient machine.
• It also states that the entropy of an isolated system
is always increasing.
• The more entropy we generate, the less energy is
leftover to do useful work.
What is entropy?

• Entropy is the disorder of a system.

• The disorder relates to the number of
possible states that a system can take
on.
What is the law of 3rd

thermodynamics?
• It is impossible to lower the temperature of any system
to absolute zero in a finite number of steps.
Can you explain the Carnot cycle?

• Carnot cycle is a reversible cycle (consists entirely of

reversible processes) and is the most efficient cycle.
• Reversible cycles cannot be achieved in practice
because of the irreversibilities:
• Friction.
• Mixing of Two Fluids.
• Heat Transfer.
• Plastic Deformation of Solids.
• Chemical Reactions.
What is the difference between
the efficiencies in both laws?
First-law efficiency
Thermal efficiency is a measure of the performance of a heat
engine.
Second-law efficiency :
• The ratio of the actual thermal efficiency to the Carnot
efficiency under the same conditions.
• Carnot efficiency is the highest efficiency a heat engine.
• For example, the maximum efficiency of a steam power plant
operating between TH = 1000 K and TL = 300 K is 70%.
• While an actual efficiency of 40%.
 Draw & Explain the Refrigeration cycle.

A refrigerant, which is a substance moved repeatedly in these four components,

should have some important characteristics such as low flammability, low toxicity,
and low boiling point.
1. The evaporator is responsible to cool the refrigerated space. To do so, the
refrigerant need to be a cold mix of liquid and gas in the inlet of the
evaporator.
2. As the refrigerant moves through the evaporator coil, the refrigerant become a
cool gas in the outlet of the evaporator.
3. The remaining stages are responsible to bring the refrigerant back to this
desired state.
4. Then the compressor converts the cool gas/vapor into a very hot and high-
pressure vapor.
5. The condenser is responsible for converting the refrigerant into a hot and high-
pressure liquid.
6. The expansion device is responsible for converting the refrigerant into a cold
mix of liquid and gas, which is our desired state in the evaporator.
 Draw & Explain the Rankin cycle

• Water enters the pump at state 1 as saturated liquid and is compressed isentropically to
the operating pressure of the boiler.
• The water temperature increases somewhat during this isentropic compression process
due to a slight decrease in the specific volume of water. The vertical distance between
states 1 and 2 on the T-s diagram is greatly exaggerated for clarity. (If water were truly
incompressible, would there be a temperature change at all during this process?) Water
enters the boiler as a compressed liquid at state 2 and leaves as a superheated vapor at
state 3.
• The boiler is basically a large heat exchanger where the heat is transferred to the water
essentially at constant pressure.
• The superheated vapor at state 3 enters the turbine, where it expands isentropically
and produces work by rotating the shaft connected to an electric generator. The
pressure and the temperature of steam drop during this process to the values at state 4,
where steam enters the condenser. At this state, steam is usually a saturated liquid–
vapor mixture with a high quality. Steam is condensed at constant pressure in the
condenser, which is basically a large heat exchanger, by rejecting heat to a cooling
medium such as a lake, a river, or the atmosphere. Steam leaves the condenser as
saturated liquid and enters the pump, completing the cycle.
• These plants can be (a) fossil-fueled, (b) nuclear-fueled, (c) solar thermal, and (d)
geothermal.
Draw & Explain the
Brayton Cycle
Gas turbines usually operate on an open cycle.
1. Fresh air at ambient conditions is drawn into
the compressor, where its temperature and
pressure are raised.
2. The high-pressure air proceeds into the
combustion chamber, where the fuel is burned
at constant pressure.
3. The resulting high-temperature gases then
enter the turbine, where they expand to the
atmospheric pressure while producing power.
The exhaust gases leaving the turbine are
thrown out.
• The two major application areas of gas-turbine
engines are aircraft propulsion and electric
power generation.
What are the stages of jet engine?
What is the turbine?

• A turbine is a rotary mechanical device

that extracts energy from a fluid flow and
converts it into useful work.
• Moving fluid acts on the blades so that
they move and impart rotational energy to
the rotor.
Impulse Principle
• Impulse turbines change the direction of
flow of a high velocity fluid or gas jet. The
resulting impulse spins the turbine and
leaves the fluid flow with diminished kinetic
energy.
• There is no pressure change of the fluid or
gas in the turbine blades (the moving
blades), as in the case of a steam or gas
turbine, all the pressure drop takes place in
the stationary blades (the nozzles). Before
reaching the turbine, the fluid's pressure
head is changed to velocity head by
accelerating the fluid with a nozzle.
Reaction Principle
• Reaction turbines develop torque by reacting to
the gas or fluid's pressure or mass. The pressure
of the gas or fluid changes as it passes through
the turbine rotor blades.
• Most steam turbines use this concept.
• Reaction turbines are better suited to higher flow
velocities or applications where the fluid head
(upstream pressure) is low.
 What is the difference between the steam turbine and gas turbine?

In term of steam turbine gas turbine

Working Fluid high pressure steam air or some other gas

Work Output delivers torque only. Deliver either torque or thrust.

The Space Required More, requires boilers and heat Less, combined device of
exchangers, which should be compressor, combustion chamber,
connected externally. and turbine executing a cyclic
executing one step of the Rankine operation
cycle executes the whole Brayton cycle.

The Efficiency Lower, lower operating Higher, higher operating

temperatures. temperatures.
steam turbines ~550 0C Gas turbines ~1500 0C
The combined cycle
• The combined cycle of greatest interest is the gas-
turbine (Brayton) cycle topping a steam turbine
(Rankine) cycle, which has a higher thermal
efficiency than either of the cycles executed
individually.
• The use of higher temperatures in gas turbines is
made possible by developments in cooling the
turbine blades and coating the blades with high-
temperature-resistant materials such as ceramics.
• In this cycle, energy is recovered from the exhaust
gases by transferring it to the steam in a heat
exchanger that serves as the boiler. In general,
more than one gas turbine is needed to supply
sufficient heat to the steam.
Define the combustion and what is
the oxygen's role in combustion?

• Combustion is a chemical reaction during which a

fuel is oxidized, and a large quantity of energy is
release.
• The oxidizer most often used in combustion
processes is air, for obvious reasons—it is free and
readily available.
• We should also mention that bringing a fuel into
intimate contact with oxygen is not sufficient to
start a combustion process.
• The fuel must be brought above its ignition
temperature to start the combustion.
What is fuel?

• Any material that can be burned to

release thermal energy is called a fuel.
• Most familiar fuels consist primarily of
hydrogen and carbon. They are called
hydrocarbon fuels and are denoted by
the general formula CnHm.
• Hydrocarbon fuels exist in all phases,
some examples being coal, gasoline, and
natural gas.
 • Air in the atmosphere normally contains some water vapor (or
moisture) and is referred to as atmospheric air.
• By contrast, air that contains no water vapor is called dry air.
• It is often convenient to treat air as a mixture of water vapor and dry
air since the composition of dry air remains relatively constant, but
Differentiate the amount of water vapor changes as a result of condensation and
evaporation from oceans, lakes, rivers, showers, and even the human
between dry body.
• Although the amount of water vapor in the air is small, it plays a
and major role in human comfort.

atmospheric
air?
Important Parameters

• Absolute or Specific humidity specify directly the mass of

water vapor present in a unit mass of dry air.
• Consider 1 kg of dry air. By definition, dry air contains no water
vapor, and thus its specific humidity is zero. let us add some
water vapor to this dry air. The specific humidity will increase.
As more vapor or moisture is added, the specific humidity will
keep increasing until the air can hold no more moisture. At this
point, the air is said to be saturated with moisture, and it is
called saturated air. Any moisture introduced into saturated
air will condense.
Important Parameters

• The comfort level depends more on the amount

of moisture the air holds (mv) relative to the
maximum amount of moisture the air can hold
at the same temperature (mg). The ratio of these
two quantities is called the relative humidity
Dew-point Temperature
• If you live in a humid area, you are probably used to waking up most
summer mornings and finding the grass wet. You know it did not rain
the night before. So what happened? Well, the excess moisture in the
air simply condensed on the cool surfaces, forming what we call dew.
In summer, a considerable amount of water vaporizes during the day. As
the temperature falls during the night, so does the “moisture capacity”
of air, which is the maximum amount of moisture air can hold. (What
happens to the relative humidity during this process?) After a while, the
moisture capacity of air equals its moisture content. At this point, air is
saturated, and its relative humidity is 100 percent. Any further drop in
temperature results in the condensation of some of the moisture, and
this is the beginning of dew formation.
• The dew-point temperature Tdp is defined as the temperature at which
condensation begins when the air is cooled at constant pressure.
Air Conditioning Processes

• Notice that simple heating and cooling processes

appear as horizontal lines on this chart since the
moisture content of the air remains constant (w
constant) during these processes.
• Air is commonly heated and humidified in winter
and cooled and dehumidified in summer.
Simple Heating and
Cooling (w constant)
• Notice that the relative humidity of air
decreases during a heating process even if the
specific humidity v remains constant. This is
because the relative humidity is the ratio of
the moisture content to the moisture capacity
of air at the same temperature, and moisture
capacity increases with temperature.
• A cooling process at constant specific humidity
is similar to the heating process discussed
above, except the dry-bulb temperature
decreases and the relative humidity increases
during such a process
Identify the bubble point

• In thermodynamics, the
bubble point is the
temperature (at a given
pressure) where the first
bubble of vapor is formed
when heating a liquid.
Venturi Effect