THERMODYNAMICS - THEORY
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Pure Substance
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Pure Substance: Ice and Water
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A substance that has a fixed chemical composition
throughout is called a pure substance.
Examples of pure substances:
- water
- mixture of ice and water
Examples of non-pure substances:
- mixture of water and oil
- mixture of liquid air and gaseous air
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Solid, Liquid, and Gas
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Substances exist in different phases. A phase
is identified as having a distinct molecular arrangement that is homogeneous
throughout
and separated from other phases by easily identifiable boundary surface.
The three principal phases are solid, liquid, and gas.
Solid: The large attractive forces of molecules on each other keep the
molecules at fixed position. Ice is the solid phase of water.
Liquid: Chunks of molecules float about each other. The molecules maintain
an orderly structure within each chunk and remain their original positions
with respect to one another. Water in room temperature and 1 atm pressure
is in liquid phase.
Gas: Molecules are far apart from each other and move about at random.
Air is in gaseous phase in room temperature and 1 atm pressure.
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Latent Heat
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Latent Heat
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When a material changes from a solid to liquid, or from
a liquid to a gas, an amount of energy is involved in the change
of phase. This energy must be supplied or removed from the system to
cause the molecular rearrangement. This energy is called the latent heat.
Latent heat relative to melting a solid is called the latent heat of
fusion (LF).
Latent heat relative to vaporizing a liquid
is called the latent heat of vaporization (LV). For example,
when ice at 1 atm is melted to water
at 0 oC, the latent heat of fusion is 333 kJ/kg.The same
quantity of heat will be removed for freezing a pound of
water to
ice.
Liquid water
boils into vapor at 100 oC, the latent heat of vaporization
is 2257 kJ/kg. Also the same quantity of heat will be removed when condensing
a pound
of water
vapor to liquid
water at this condition.
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Phase-change Processes
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Subcooled Liquid
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Consider a piston-cylinder device containing
liquid water at 20 oC and 1 atm. At this state, the water
is in liquid phase and is called compressed liquid or subcooled liquid.
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Saturated Liquid
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While keeping the pressure constant which is 1.0 atm,
add heat to the piston-cylinder device till the temperature reaches
100 oC.
If additional heat is added to the water, vapor will appear. The liquid
water at this state is called saturated liquid. |
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Saturated Mixture
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Continuing to add heat to the piston-cylinder device,
the liquid will vaporize. The piston-cylinder contains both liquid water
and vapor. It is called saturated liquid-vapor mixture or saturated mixture.
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Saturated vapor
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The temperature remains at 100 oC if the liquid
and vapor coexist. The
vapor is called saturated vapor just when all liquid becomes vapor. |
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Superheated vapor
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The temperature of the vapor will rise if more heat is added
to the piston-cylinder system after it reaches the saturated vapor state.
The vapor for which temperature is higher than that of
saturated vapor is called superheated vapor. |
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T-v Diagram
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The entire process can be described on a T-v diagram
shown on the left.
- 1 = Subcooled Liquid
- 2 = Saturated Liquid
- 3 = Saturated Mixture
- 4 = Saturated Vapor
- 5 = Superheated Vapor
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