Thermodynamics - 1

Lecture 4 & 5

Energy, Energy Transfer

Energy and Work Interactions (Ch-2)

Zia Ud Din
Objectives
• Introduce the concept of energy and define its various forms.
• Discuss the nature of internal energy.
• Define the concept of heat and the terminology associated with energy
transfer by heat.
• Discuss the three mechanisms of heat transfer: conduction,
convection, and radiation.
• Define the concept of work, including electrical work.
• Introduce the first law of thermodynamics, energy balances, and
mechanisms of energy transfer to or from a system.
• Determine that a fluid flowing across a control surface of a control
volume carries energy across the control surface in addition to any
energy transfer across the control surface that may be in the form of
heat and/or work.
• Define energy conversion efficiencies.
• Discuss the implications of energy conversion on the environment.
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 INTRODUCTION
• If we take the entire room—including the air and the refrigerator (or
fan)—as the system, which is an adiabatic closed system since the
room is well-sealed and well-insulated, the only energy interaction
involved is the electrical energy crossing the system boundary and
entering the room.
• As a result of the conversion of electric energy consumed by the
device to heat, the room temperature will rise.
A fan running in a
well-sealed and
well-insulated room
will raise the
temperature of air in
the room.

A refrigerator
operating with its
door open in a well-
sealed and well-
insulated room 3
 FORMS OF ENERGY
• Energy can exist in numerous forms such as thermal, mechanical,
kinetic, potential, electric, magnetic, chemical, and nuclear, and their
sum constitutes the total energy, E of a system.
• Thermodynamics deals only with the change of the total energy.
• Macroscopic forms of energy: Those a system possesses as a whole
with respect to some outside reference frame, such as kinetic and
potential energies.
• Microscopic forms of energy: Those related to the molecular
structure of a system and the degree of the molecular activity.
• Internal energy, U: The sum of all the microscopic forms of energy.

• Kinetic energy, KE: The energy

that a system possesses as a result
of its motion relative to some
reference frame.
• Potential energy, PE: The energy
that a system possesses as a result The macroscopic energy of an
of its elevation in a gravitational object changes with velocity and
field. elevation. 4
 Kinetic energy

Kinetic energy
per unit mass

Mass flow rate

Potential energy

Potential energy
per unit mass Energy flow rate

Total energy
of a system

Energy of a system
per unit mass

Total energy
per unit mass 5
Some Physical Insight to Internal Energy
Sensible energy: The portion
of the internal energy of a
system associated with the
kinetic energies of the
molecules.
Latent energy: The internal
energy associated with the
phase of a system.
Chemical energy: The internal
energy associated with the
atomic bonds in a molecule.
Nuclear energy: The
tremendous amount of energy
associated with the strong
The internal energy of a
system is the sum of all forms
bonds within the nucleus of the
of the microscopic energies. atom itself.
The various forms of
microscopic Thermal = Sensible + Latent
energies that make Internal = Sensible + Latent + Chemical + Nuclear
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up sensible energy.
• The total energy of a system, can
be contained or stored in a system,
and thus can be viewed as the
static forms of energy.
• The forms of energy not stored in a
system can be viewed as the
dynamic forms of energy or as
energy interactions.
• The dynamic forms of energy are
recognized at the system boundary
as they cross it, and they represent
the energy gained or lost by a
system during a process. The macroscopic kinetic energy is an
organized form of energy and is much
• The only two forms of energy
more useful than the disorganized
interactions associated with a
microscopic kinetic energies of the
closed system are heat transfer
molecules.
and work.
• The difference between heat transfer and work: An energy interaction is
heat transfer if its driving force is a temperature difference. Otherwise it is
work. 7
Mechanical Energy
Mechanical energy: The form of energy that can be converted to
mechanical work completely and directly by an ideal mechanical device such
as an ideal turbine.
Kinetic and potential energies: The familiar forms of mechanical energy.

Mechanical energy of a
flowing fluid per unit mass

Rate of mechanical
energy of a flowing fluid

Mechanical energy change of a fluid during incompressible flow per unit mass

Rate of mechanical energy change of a fluid during incompressible flow

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Exercise Example 2-2

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Exercise Example 2-2

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ENERGY TRANSFER BY HEAT
Heat: The form of energy that is
transferred between two
systems (or a system and its
surroundings) by virtue of a
temperature difference.

Temperature difference is the driving

Energy can cross the force for heat transfer. The larger the
boundaries of a closed system temperature difference, the higher is the
in the form of heat and work. rate of heat transfer. 11
Heat transfer
per unit mass
Amount of heat transfer
when heat transfer rate
is constant
Amount of heat transfer
when heat transfer rate
changes with time

Energy is
recognized
as heat
transfer only
as it crosses
the system
boundary.

During an adiabatic process, a system

exchanges no heat with its surroundings. 12
 Historical Background on Heat
• Kinetic theory: Treats molecules
as tiny balls that are in motion and
thus possess kinetic energy.
• Heat: The energy associated with
the random motion of atoms and
molecules.
Heat transfer mechanisms:
• Conduction: The transfer of energy
from the more energetic particles of
a substance to the adjacent less
energetic ones as a result of
interaction between particles.
• Convection: The transfer of energy
between a solid surface and the In the early nineteenth century, heat was
adjacent fluid that is in motion, and thought to be an invisible fluid called the
it involves the combined effects of caloric that flowed from warmer bodies to
conduction and fluid motion. the cooler ones.
• Radiation: The transfer of energy
due to the emission of
electromagnetic waves (or
photons). 13
 ENERGY TRANSFER BY WORK
• Work: The energy transfer associated with a force acting through a distance.
 A rising piston, a rotating shaft, and an electric wire crossing the
system boundaries are all associated with work interactions
• Formal sign convention: Heat transfer to a system and work done by a
system are positive; heat transfer from a system and work done on a system
are negative.
• Alternative to sign convention is to use the subscripts in and out to indicate
direction. This is the primary approach in this text.

Work done
per unit mass

Power is the
Specifying the directions
work done per
of heat and work. 14
unit time (kW)
Heat vs. Work
• Both are recognized at the boundaries
of a system as they cross the
boundaries. That is, both heat and work
are boundary phenomena.
• Systems possess energy, but not heat
or work.
• Both are associated with a process, not
a state.
• Unlike properties, heat or work has no
meaning at a state.
• Both are path functions (i.e., their
magnitudes depend on the path followed
during a process as well as the end
states). Properties are point functions; but
heat and work are path functions
(their magnitudes depend on the
Properties are point functions path followed).
have exact differentials (d ).
Path functions
have inexact
differentials ( )
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 MECHANICAL FORMS OF WORK
• There are two requirements for a work interaction between a
system and its surroundings to exist:
 there must be a force acting on the boundary.
 the boundary must move.

When force is not constant

Work = Force  Distance

If there is no movement,
no work is done.
The work done is proportional to the force
applied (F) and the distance traveled (s). 16
Exercise Example 2-3

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Exercise Example 2-4

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Exercise Example 2-5

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Exercise Example 2-6

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Electrical Work
Electrical work

Electrical power

When potential difference

and current change with time

Electrical power in terms of resistance

R, current I, and potential difference V.
When potential difference
and current remain constant

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