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Energy & Its Impact on Global Society Jerome K. Williams, Ph.D. Saint Leo University Dept. Mathematics & Sciences
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Chapter 4: Heat and Work Heat Engines Second Law Thermodynamics Engine Efficiency
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Heat Engines Heat engines include all devices that take heat and convert it into useful work. – Automobile engine – Steam Turbine (Electrical Power Plant) Heat flow proceeds through a fluid medium (working fluid) – Gasoline (Automobile) :Water (Steam Turbine)
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Heat Engines What energy conversions take place in a car and in an electric generating plant?
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Heat Engines Energy Conservation tells us the following relationship is true. Systems can be open or closed in design
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Heat Engines Types of Heat Engines (Table 4.3) – Vapor (Rankine) cycle: working fluid changes state – Gas Cycle: working fluid remains in gas phase
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Heat Engines A Final Example of Heat Engine Device Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) – Use temperature difference at various depths in Ocean to generate electricity – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGwsvuxuK7g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGwsvuxuK7g
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Second Law Thermodynamics Second Law relates to direction a physical process can proceed in by itself. Entropy is a property of a system; it measures the disorder of a system. Nature favors disorder.
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Second Law Thermodynamics In an isolated system the entropy change for a spontaneous system can only increase or stay the same. Second Law states that the amount of disorder in the world is continually increasing. “Arrow of Time” shows direction of process
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Second Law Thermodynamics Can we go against Mother Nature? Yes, but to increase the order of a system one must supply external work (energy) to make this happen.
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Second Law Thermodynamics Statements of Second Law Thermodynamics – 1. Heat flows spontaneously (by itself) from heat source to cold sink. – 2. No engine can be constructed that takes heat from a hot source and converts it entirely to useful work. Some heat must be lost to cold sink.
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Engine Efficiency First Law: Work output = Heat input minus Heat transferred out. Remember: Temperatures must be in Kelvin
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Engine Efficiency Efficiency of Engine will always be less than 100% due to heat loss that must occur. Perpetual Motion Machines??
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Engine Efficiency
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Problems 3, 4, 16, 18, 21, 22, 28, 32
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