Heat Potentials

Since work and heat are equally valid means of transferring energy to and from systems, all these potentials can be construed as heat potentials under some conditions, but only two can be conveniently treated so. Thus, for example, rearranging (5.22) and substituting q = TAS, w. = —PAY, gives 

However, the only heat potential of much interest is the enthalpy, and in fact we could say that the only practical Interest in the enthalpy is that it is a potential for heat in constant pressure processes. As before, if the only work is PAY in a constant pressure process (and remember that at constant P, work is exactly equal to —PAY, not -PAY), then 

Thus it happens that in constant pressure processes, the enthalpy change is exactly equal to q, the total heat flow. Or putting it the other way around, q admits a potential H in constant pressure processes. Please note that because H is a state variable, AH is perfectly well-defined between any two equilibrium states. But when the two states are at the same pressure, it becomes equal to the total heat flow during the process from one to the other, and in fact AH is in practice rarely used except in these cases (another kind of use, isenthalpic expansions, is discussed in Chapter 8). 

We should emphasize that strictly speaking, U, A, H, and G should be spoken of in each case as reversible work potentials, rather than as work potentials, since it is only in the reversible case that the work is equal to the change in the potential, analogous to (5.17). Note though, that H is a potential for heat in isobaric processes, reversible or not. 

Finally, we should point out that in fact the products TS and PV are also potential quantities, and are both the products of a thermodynamic force term (T, P) and a configuration term (S,V). Both have dimensions of energy, and are rather analogous to U in that 

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While process design and equipment specification are usually performed prior to the implementation of the process, optimization of operating conditions is carried out monthly, weekly, daily, hourly, or even eveiy minute. Optimization of plant operations determines the set points for each unit at the temperatures, pressures, and flow rates that are the best in some sense. For example, the selection of the percentage of excess air in a process heater is quite critical and involves a balance on the fuel-air ratio to assure complete combustion and at the same time make the maximum use of the Heating potential of the fuel. Typical day-to-day optimization in a plant minimizes steam consumption or cooling water consumption, optimizes the reflux ratio in a distillation column, or allocates raw materials on an economic basis [Latour, Hydro Proc., 58(6), 73, 1979, and Hydro. Proc., 58(7), 219, 1979]. 

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The primary evaluation criteria used for evaluating sprinkler effectiveness was the number of sprinklers that operated, the extent of fire damage, heating potential for material within the commodity cartons, and the magnitude and duration of ceiling steel temperatures. 

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