Thermodynamic Adiabatic compression

The adiabatic temperature increase for an ideal gas is computed from the thermodynamic adiabatic compression equation ... 

The thermal efficiency of the process (QE) should be compared with a thermodynamically ideal Carnot cycle, which can be done by comparing the respective indicator diagrams. These show the variation of temperamre, volume and pressure in the combustion chamber during the operating cycle. In the Carnot cycle one mole of gas is subjected to alternate isothermal and adiabatic compression or expansion at two temperatures. By die first law of thermodynamics the isothermal work done on (compression) or by the gas (expansion) is accompanied by the absorption or evolution of heat (Figure 2.2). 

The thermodynamic state of a reactive mixture just prior to combustion is determined by adiabatic compression and by turbulent mixing with combustion... 

Figure 12-12A. Illustration of isentropic path on log pressure-enthalpy diagram, showing Mollier chart method of finding final temperature and calculation of H for reversible and adiabatic compression. (Used by permission Edmister, W. C. Applied Hydrocarbon Thermodynamics, 1961. Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, Texas. All rights reserved.)...

To evaluate the integral in Equation B.l requires the pressure to be known at each point along the compression path. In principle, compression could be carried out either at constant temperature or adiabatically. Most compression processes are carried out close to adiabatic conditions. Adiabatic compression of an ideal gas along a thermodynamically reversible (isentropic) path can be expressed as ... 

Hart and Henglein [14] also reported the sonolytic decomposition of nitrous oxide in aqueous solutions under pure argon, pure N2O and the mixture of the two gases and reported the formation of species such as N2, O2, N02 and N03 with the maximum yield being in the Ar/N20 mixture in the vol% ratio of 85 15. Although H20 is thermodynamically much more stable than N2O but they postulated that all H20 and N2O molecules in an argon bubble were converted into free radicals in the short time of adiabatic compression phase of the bubble. They proposed a series of free radical reactions for the formation of all these species in aqueous solutions. 

A hypothetical cycle for achieving reversible work, typically consisting of a sequence of operations (1) isothermal expansion of an ideal gas at a temperature T2 (2) adiabatic expansion from T2 to Ti (3) isothermal compression at temperature Ti and (4) adiabatic compression from Ti to T2. This cycle represents the action of an ideal heat engine, one exhibiting maximum thermal efficiency. Inferences drawn from thermodynamic consideration of Carnot cycles have advanced our understanding about the thermodynamics of chemical systems. See Carnot s Theorem Efficiency Thermodynamics... 

This chapter establishes the basis for the Second Law of Thermodynamics. It is not critical that you read this chapter to be able to understand the more practical chapters on compression that follow. But, for those readers who have technical training, wouldn t it be lovely to actually understand the basis for the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Wouldn t it be grand to really see the beauty and simplicity of the basis for the adiabatic compression work equation ... 

CARNOT CYCLE. An ideal cycle or four reversible changes in the physical condition of a substance, useful in thermodynamic theory. Starting with specified values of die variable temperature, specific volume, and pressure, the substance undergoes, in succession, an isothermal (constant temperature) expansion, an adiabatic expansion (see also Adiabatic Process), and an isothermal compression to such a point that a further adiabatic compression will return the substance to its original condition. These changes are represented on the volume-pressure diagram respectively by ub. he. ctl. and da in Fig. I. Or the cycle may he reversed ad c h a. 

Example 4.2 Dissipated energy in an adiabatic compression In an adiabatic compression operation, air is compressed from 20°C and 101.32kPa to 520 kPa with an efficiency of 0.7. The airflow rate is 22 mol/s. Assume that the air remains ideal gas during the compression. The surroundings are at 298.15 K. Determine the thermodynamic efficiency Tjlh and the rate of energy dissipated Eloss. 

Homogeneous liquids do not scatter ultrasound because they do not contain any discontinuities. Attenuation in these systems is solely due to absorption caused by thermodynamic relaxation processes. In a pure homogeneous liquid, which is not highly attenuating ( .e. a adiabatic compressibility and the density by the equation... 

Ultrasound propagation is adiabatic in homogeneous media at the frequencies typically used in US-based detection techniques. Therefore, although temperature fluctuations inevitably accompany pressure fluctuations in US, thermal dissipation is small and it is adiabatic compressibility which matters. As a second derivative of thermodynamic potentials, compressibility is extremely sensitive to structure and intermolecular interactions in liquids (e.g. the compressibility of water near charged ions or atomic groups of macromolecules differs from that of bulk water by 50-100%). 

The change of temperature on adiabatic compression or expansion is measured, and the coefficient of expansion is generally known. It should be noted, however, that Cp is a function of pressure, so that only fairly small pressure differences can be used. It is usually sufficient to take (dr/dp) as equal to ATjAp)q, with finite differences. The specific heat may be calculated by the thermodynamic equation (12), 44.11, Cp=—T d GI6T )p, where G is the available energy. 1... 

FIG. 4-3 Adiabatic compression process. [Smith, Van Ness, and Abbott, Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, 7th ed., p. 274, McGraw-Hill, New York (2005).]... 

Figure 3.19. Magnitude of the terms in the thermodynamic equation as a function of latitude at 10-30 hPa during winter. Note that the largest contributions to the heat budget are provided by adiabatic compression and wave driven meridional heat transport. From O Neill (1980).

Thermodynamic parameters of Mn-Si, Ag-Ge, Au-Sn, ° and Lu-Pb ° liquid metal solutions have been examined. Atomic ordering in Zn-Sn melts, assessed from the results of X-ray diffraction and adiabatic compressibility studies, has been reported it is concluded that interactions between like elements are stronger than between unlike elements, leading to positive deviations from ideality. ... 

Bulk modulus can be treated from the adiabatic as well as the isothermal point of view. Phenomenologically adiabatic compression or expansion are processes where heat is neither lost to nor gained from the environment. If the process occurs under equilibrium conditions, then we have the thermodynamically tractable case at zero entropy change and we define the bulk modalui as... 

At sufficiently low frequency and small amplitude the sound velocity W in a fluid can be regarded as a purely thermodynamic property related to the adiabatic compressibility jSs = — 1 [V dVldp)s and the density p = M[V by... 

The sonic velocity w in a fluid is a thermodynamic property related to the adiabatic compressibility by w = l/(pKj), where p is the mass density of the fluid. 

These early studies, however, led to only qualitative views on the effects of individual ions on the structure of water. In a much more recent study Chalikian (2001) applied thermodynamic functions of hydration, in particular the partial molar volume and adiabatic compressibility, to the two-state model of liquid water (Sect. 1.1.3). According to this study, the fraction of high density domains in pure liquid water at 25 °C is 0.27, whereas it is raised to between 0.80 and 0.96 in dilute solutions of the alkali halides, that is, a large amount of (tetrahedral hydrogen bonded) structure breaking takes place. This conclusion is based on undefined properties of water of... 

Since Tj, Pi, and P2 are known, Eq. (15.7) is solved iteratively for T2,iseiiiropic- With T2 known, the exit enthalpy can be computed. Then the first law of thermodynamics for an adiabatic compression of molar gas flow, F, assuming no change in potential or kinetic energy of the gas and written in terms of molar enthalpy, h, can be applied to calculate the theoretical or isentropic powen... 

The compressibility is defined as either the negative of the relative change in the volume with the application of pressure or the relative change in the density with the application of pressure under specified conditions. (The signs are such as to make the coefficient positive for any thermodynamically stable system.) Therefore, the adiabatic compressibility (the version which dictates the speed of sound) is... 

We shall see, as an example, a simple counterflow cold exchanger connecting the cold and warm ends between (B) and (D) is the nearest realistic equivalent to a Carnot cycle. The idealized constant-mass flow system in a perfect counterflow heat regenerator operating with an idealized gas is thermodynamically equivalent to the adiabatic expansion paired with the adiabatic compression in the Carnot cycle, since the following intrinsic energy transfer is fulfilled in terms of a reciprocal isobaric transformation. (See Fig. 2)... 

Significant research has been carried out to illustrate the thermodynamics and forces that drive encapsulation. However, classical principles of thermodynamics fail to explain the inconsistency in results. To better understand the forces that drive the encapsulation process and evaluate the role of hydrophobic interaction in the process of encapsulation, Taulier et al. studied alteration in volume, expansibility or adiabatic compressibility obtained due to encapsulation of AD and p-CD. They reported that upon encapsulation, 20-25 water molecules were displaced from the hydrophobic regions of both AD and P-CD, which was further evidenced by the number of water molecules in the bulk. These... 

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