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The advantages of liquid fuels over solid fuels are as follows: Requirement of less space for storage Higher calorific value Easy handling and transportation Better ..
The main source of liquid fuels is petroleum which is obtained from drilled wells under the Earth’s crust. Petroleum has originated probably from organic matter ..
A thermodynamic process that does not fulfill conditions of a reversible process is termed an irreversible process. Irreversibilities are the reasons causing the process ..
Natural gas: The main constituents of natural gas are methane (CH4) and ethane (C2H6). Its calorific value is nearly 21 MJ/m3. It is used as an alternate fuel for internal ..
Gas Laws explain the behavior of an ideal gas in terms of temperature, pressure, volume. The following are the some of the important gas laws: Boyle’s Law Charles ..
A refrigerant is a substance or mixture. Usually, a fluid, used in a heat pump and refrigeration cycle that can extract heat from another body or substance. ..
A thermodynamic system is said to exist in a state of thermodynamic equilibrium when no change in any macroscopic property is registered if the system is isolated ..
Every substance has triple point. The triple point of a substance is a point at which it exists in solid, liquid and vapor phases. The triple point is the point ..
Comparison between work and internal energy can be made in the following ways. S.no Work Internal Energy 1 The work is the product of force and displacement in the direction ..
Comparison between Exergy(Availability) and Energy can be made in the following ways. S.no Exergy (Availability) Energy 1 Exergy(Availability) doesn’t follow ..
Atkinson cycle is an ideal cycle for Otto engine exhausting to a gas turbine. In this cycle, the isentropic expansion 3-4 of an Otto cycle (1-2-3-4) is further allowed ..
The thermodynamic cycle Brayton cycle can be compared with the Otto cycle to deduce the following points: Comparison of Pressure-volume and Temperature-entropy diagrams ..
If an object with a higher temperature comes in contact with an object of lower temperature, it will transfer heat to the lower temperature object. The objects will ..
The First law of thermodynamics states that energy is neither created nor destroyed. Thus the total energy of the universe is a constant. However, energy can certainly ..
