Chapter 6 - Entropy
Chapter 6 - Entropy
CHAPTER 06 ENTROPY
ENTROPY INTRODUCTION: The second law of thermodynamics has a variety of implications: perpetual motion machines are impossible all heat engines have thermal efficiencies less than 100% irreversible heat engines are less efficient than reversible engines. Among these implications is a cyclic integral inequality which was first recognized by Clausius. This inequality applies to all thermodynamic cycles, reversible or irreversible.
ENTROPY
Clasius inequality
The equality in the Clausius inequality holds for totally or just internally reversible cycles and the inequality for the irreversible ones.
The entropy change between two specified states is the same whether the process is reversible or irreversible.
This equation is particularly useful for determining the entropy changes of thermal energy reservoirs.
Example 6.1 Air is compressed by a 12-kW compressor from P1 to P2. The air temperature is maintained constant at 25C during this process as a result of heat transfer to the surrounding medium at 10C. Determine the rate of entropy change of the air.
The equality holds for an internally reversible process and the inequality for an irreversible process.
A cycle composed of a reversible and an irreversible process. Some entropy is generated or created during an irreversible process, and this generation is due entirely to the presence of irreversibilities. The entropy generation Sgen is always a positive quantity or zero. Can the entropy of a system during a process decrease?
The entropy change of an isolated system is the sum of the entropy changes of its components, and is never less than zero. A system and its surroundings form an isolated system. The increase of entropy principle
The entropy change of a system can be negative, but the entropy generation cannot.
Example 6.2 During the isothermal heat addition process of a Carnot cycle, 900 kJ of heat is added to the working fluid at temperature 200oC from a source of 400C. Determine (a)the entropy change of the working fluid (b)the entropy change of the source (c)The total entropy change for the process
The entropy of a pure substance is determined from the tables (like other properties).
Entropy change
ISENTROPIC PROCESSES
A process during which the entropy remains constant is called an isentropic process.
During an internally reversible, adiabatic (isentropic) process, the entropy remains constant.
Example 6.3 The radiator of a steam heating system has a volume of 20 L and is filled with superheated water vapour at 200 kPa and 200C. At this moment both the inlet and the exit valves to the radiator are closed. After a while the temperature of the steam drops to 80C as a result of heat transfer to the room air. Determine the entropy change of the steam during this process, in kJ/K.
WHAT IS ENTROPY?
A pure crystalline substance at absolute zero temperature is in perfect order, and its entropy is zero (the third law of thermodynamics).
Disorganized energy does not create much useful effect, no matter how large it is.
WHAT IS ENTROPY?
Entropy can be viewed as a measure of molecular disorder, or molecular randomness. The quantity of energy is always preserved during an actual process (the first law), but the quality is bound to decrease (the second law). This decrease in quality is always accompanied by an increase in entroppy.
During a heat transfer process, the net entropy increases. (The increase in the entropy of the cold body more than offsets the decrease in the entropy of the hot body.)
In the absence of friction, raising a weight by a rotating shaft does not create any disorder (entropy), and thus energy is not degraded during this process.
The paddle-wheel work done on a gas increases the level of disorder (entropy) of the gas, and thus energy is degraded during this process.
THE T ds RELATIONS
The T ds relations are valid for both reversible and irreversible processes and for both closed and open systems.
Since
Under the constant-specificheat assumption, the specific heat is assumed to be constant at some average value.
On a unitmass basis
On a unitmole basis
The entropy of an ideal gas depends on both T and P. The function s represents only the temperaturedependent part of entropy.
The isentropic relations of ideal gases are valid for the isentropic processes of ideal gases only.
The use of vr data for calculating the final temperature during an isentropic process
Example 6.4 Oxygen gas is compressed in a piston-cylinder device from an initial state of 0.81 m3/kg and 25C to a final state of 0.1 m3/kg and 287C. Determine the entropy change of the oxygen during this process. Assume constant specific heats.
For the steady flow of a liquid through a device that involves no work interactions (such as a pipe section), the work term is zero (Bernoulli equation):
The larger the specific volume, the greater the work produced (or consumed) by a steady-flow device.
Proof that Steady-Flow Devices Deliver the Most and Consume the Least Work when the Process Is Reversible
Taking heat input and work output positive: Actual Reversible
Work-producing devices such as turbines deliver more work, and workconsuming devices such as pumps and compressors require less work when they operate reversibly.
A reversible turbine delivers more work than an irreversible one if both operate between the same end states.
Polytropic (Pvn = constant): P-v diagrams of isentropic, polytropic, and isothermal compression processes between the same pressure limits. Isothermal (Pv = constant):
To minimize compression work during two-stage compression, the pressure ratio across each stage of the compressor must be the same.
The h-s diagram for the actual and isentropic processes of an adiabatic turbine.
For a pump Isothermal efficiency The h-s diagram of the actual and isentropic processes of an adiabatic compressor. Compressors are sometimes intentionally cooled to minimize the work input. Can you use isentropic efficiency for a non-adiabatic compressor? Can you use isothermal efficiency for an adiabatic compressor?
If the inlet velocity of the fluid is small relative to the exit velocity, the The h-s diagram energy balance is of the actual and isentropic processes of an adiabatic nozzle. Then,
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A substance leaves actual nozzles at a higher temperature (thus a lower velocity) as a result of friction.
Example 6.5 Steam enters an adiabatic turbine at 8 MPa and 500C with a mass flow rate of 3 kg/s and leaves at 30 kPa. The isentropic efficiency of the turbine is 0.90. Neglecting the kinetic energy change of the steam, determine (a) the temperature at the turbine exit (b) the power output of the turbine
Example 6.6 Air enters an adiabatic compressor at 100 kPa and 17C at a rate of 0.4 kg/s, and it exits at 800 kPa. The compressor has an isentropic efficiency of 84 percent. Neglecting the changes in kinetic and potential energies, determine (a) the exit temperature of air (b) the power required to drive the compressor
ENTROPY BALANCE
The property entropy is a measure of molecular disorder or randomness of a system, and the second law of thermodynamics states that entropy can be created but it cannot be destroyed. Therefore, the entropy change of a system during a process is greater than the entropy transfer. Increase of entropy principle for any system is expressed as follows :
ENTROPY BALANCE
Entropy Change of a System, Ssystem
Heat transfer is always accompanied by entropy transfer in the amount of Q/T, where T is the boundary temperature. No entropy accompanies work as it crosses the system boundary. But entropy may be generated within the system as work is dissipated into a less useful form of energy.
Mass contains entropy as well as energy, and thus mass flow into or out of system is always accompanied by energy and entropy transfer.
Entropy generation outside system boundaries can be accounted for by writing an entropy balance on an extended system that includes the system and its immediate surroundings.
Closed Systems
Any closed system and its surroundings can be treated as an adiabatic System and the total entropy change of a overall system is equal to the sum of the entropy changes of its part.
Control Volumes
The entropy of a substance always increases (or remains constant in the case of a reversible process) as it flows through a single-stream, adiabatic, steadyflow device.
The entropy of a control volume changes as a result of mass flow as well as heat transfer.
EXAMPLES
Entropy balance for heat transfer through a wall
Graphical representation of entropy generation during a heat transfer process through a finite temperature difference.