Modern Engineering Thermodynamics

Chapter 8

Second Law Closed System Applications

Contents

8.1 Introduction

8.1.1 Closed System Indirect Method

8.1.2 Closed System Direct Method

8.2 Systems Undergoing Reversible Processes

8.3 Systems Undergoing Irreversible Processes

8.4 Diffusional Mixing

Summary

8.1 Introduction

Chapters 8 and 9 provide closed and open system applications of the second law of thermodynamics in the same way that Chapters 5 and 6 dealt with closed and open system applications of the first law of thermodynamics. In this chapter, we present a series of applications of the closed system entropy balance and entropy production equations developed in Chapter 7. This material is organized into two major subdivisions: applications involving reversible processes ...