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Few versus Many Particles: The Euler Relation and Forms of Exergy - Lecture 8

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Overview

Explore advanced thermodynamics concepts in this 96-minute lecture focusing on particle systems, Euler relations, and exergy analysis. Delve into wall rarefaction effects for few-particle systems and understand the 'simple system' approximation for many-particle scenarios. Master the fundamental principles of Euler and Gibbs-Duhem relations while examining bulk flow interactions. Learn to differentiate between first-law and second-law efficiencies, and gain comprehensive knowledge of various exergy forms. Progress through detailed explanations of microscopic versus macroscopic perspectives, stability principles, and the LeChatelier-Braun Principle. Examine practical applications through topics like cogeneration, heat exchange, and open system dynamics. For optimal learning efficiency, viewing at 1.5x speed is recommended by the instructor.

Syllabus

- Introduction
- Review: Stability and LeChatelier-Braun Principle
- Introducing the “Simple-System Model”
- Microscopic and Mesoscopic versus Macroscopic
- Rarefaction Effects Near Walls at Equilibrium
- Large versus Small Systems
- Macroscipic Limit; Many-Particle Limit
- Effect of Inserting and Removing Partitions
- Simple-System Model: Limiting Assumption
- Simple-System Model: Proof of the Euler Relation
- Main Consequence of the Euler Relation
- Bulk-Flow Local-Equilibrium State Model
- Bulk Flow Interactions
- Pulsion Work and How Enthalpy Gets In
- System Open to Bulk Flow, Heat, and Work
- Mass, Energy and Entropy Balances for Open Systems
- Exergies and First and Second-Law Efficiencies
- Exergy Balance for an Open System
- Review: First-Law vs Second-Law Efficiencies
- First-Law Efficiency or COP Definition
- Second-Law Efficiency Definition
- Exergy Generic Definition of the Concept
- Exergy Associated with Heat Exchange
- Exergy and Second-Law Efficiency in Cogeneration

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