Explore advanced thermodynamics concepts in this MIT lecture focusing on allocation in hybrid power production and the fundamentals of chemical potentials and partial pressures. Begin with a comprehensive review of exergy principles in heating, cooling bulk flows, and flame-based fuel-to-power conversion before delving into efficient fossil fuel usage and allocation challenges in cogeneration (CHP) systems. Master the complexities of chemical potentials in multicomponent systems, understanding stable-equilibrium properties of mixtures, and the relationship between partial pressures and chemical potentials. Learn how specific properties depend on particle numbers in small systems, examine the simple-system approximation in large particle limits, and discover how partial properties derive from chemical potentials. Gain practical insights into mixture properties and their relationship to partial properties through detailed explanations and examples presented over 98 minutes of advanced instruction.
Allocation in Hybrid Power Production and Chemical Potentials in Thermodynamics - Lecture 11
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Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Review: Exergy in Heating and Cooling Bulk Flows
- Review: Minimum Exergy for Low Temperature Heating
- Review: Flame-Based Fuel-to-Power Conversion
- Review: Inherent Irreversibility of Flames
- Efficient and Inefficient Uses of Fossil Fuels
- Review: Allocation Problem in Cogeneration CHP
- Review: Allocation Problem in Hybrid Facilities
- Introduction to Part II: Chemical Potentials etc
- Stable-Equilibrium Properties of Mixtures
- Small Systems: Specific Properties Depend on “n”
- Large “n” Limit: Simple-System Approximation
- Partial Pressures to Measure Chemical Potentials
- Partial Properties from the Chemical Potentials
- Mixture Properties from the Partial Properties
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