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Entropy

Clausius inequality

This inequality is valid for all cycles, reversible or irreversible.

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TR must be always a positive

quantity as it represents
temperature in
thermodynamic scale

To meet the second law

conditions:

Applicable to any
property

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• Engineers are usually concerned with the changes in entropy.

• The entropy of a substance can be assigned a zero value at

some arbitrarily selected reference state
• The entropy values at other states can be determined from
above equation choosing state 1 to be the reference state (S = 0)
and state 2 to be the state at which entropy is to be determined

The entropy change between two specified states is the

same whether the process is reversible or irreversible

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Increase of Entropy Principle

Some entropy is generated or created during an irreversible

process, and this generation is entirely due to the presence
of irreversibilities.

The entropy generated during a process is called entropy

generation and is denoted by Sgen
The entropy generation is always a positive quantity or
zero.

Its value depends on the process, and thus it is not a

property of the system.

In the absence of any entropy transfer, the entropy change

of a system is equal to the entropy generation.

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For an isolated system (an adiabatic closed system), the heat transfer
is zero

The entropy of an isolated system during a process always

increases or, in the limiting case of a reversible process,
remains constant.

It never decreases. This is known as the increase of

entropy principle

For an isolated system (or simply an adiabatic closed system),

the heat transfer is zero

This equation can be expressed as the entropy of an isolated

system during a process always increases or, in the limiting case of
a reversible process, remains constant. In other words, it never
decreases.

This is known as the increase of entropy principle.

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Entropy: An
extensive
property

Since no actual process is truly reversible,

some entropy is generated during a process

The entropy of the universe, which can be

considered to be an isolated system, is
continuously increasing.

The more irreversible a process, the larger the

entropy generated during that process.

No entropy is generated during reversible

processes

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Some Remarks about Entropy

Processes can occur in a certain direction only, not in any
direction.
A process must proceed in the direction that complies with the
increase of entropy principle

Entropy is a non-conserved property, and there is no such thing

as the conservation of entropy principle.
Entropy is conserved during the idealized reversible processes
only and increases during all actual processes.

The performance of engineering systems is degraded by the

presence of irreversibilities, and entropy generation is a measure
of the magnitudes of the irreversibilities present during that
process.

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Entropy change of pure substances

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Isentropic process
The entropy of a fixed mass can be changed by:
(1) heat transfer and (2) irreversibilities.

The entropy of a fixed mass does not change during a process

that is internally reversible and adiabatic

A process during which the entropy remains constant is called an

isentropic process.

Entropy change of pure substances

The entropies of substances are evaluated from measurable property
data following computational approach, and the results are tabulated in
the same manner as the other properties such as v, u, and h

The entropy values in the property tables are given relative to an arbitrary
reference state.

In steam tables the entropy of saturated liquid sf at 0.01oC is assigned the

value of zero.

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the area under the process curve on a

T-S diagram represents heat transfer
during an internally reversible process.

Isentropic process

Mollier diagram

Measure of
work output

Measure of
irreversibilities

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Carnot cycle

Physical interpretation of entropy

Entropy can be viewed as a measure of molecular

disorder, or molecular randomness.

As a system becomes more disordered, the positions

of the molecules become less predictable and the
entropy increases.

The entropy of a substance is lowest in the solid

phase and highest in the gas phase

The entropy of a system increases whenever the

thermal randomness or disorder (i.e., the number of
possible relevant molecular microstates
corresponding to a given bulk macrostate) of a
system increases.

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The entropy of a pure crystalline substance at absolute zero temperature

is zero since there is no uncertainty about the state of the molecules at
that instant

This statement is known as the third law of thermodynamics.

The third law of thermodynamics provides an absolute reference point

for the determination of entropy.

The entropy determined relative to this point is called absolute entropy

Energy transfer without Energy transfer with

degradation degradation

work done on a gas

increases the level of disorder
(entropy) of the gas
There is no entropy transfer associated with
energy transfer as work. energy is degraded during this
Any process that does not produce a net entropy process.
is reversible

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TdS Relations

First

Second

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Entropy change of ideal gas

Entropy change of ideal gas

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Isentropic Processes of Ideal Gases

s2 – s1 = 0 cp – c v = R

k = cp/cv

Isentropic Processes of Ideal Gases

cp – c v = R

s2 – s1 = 0 k = cp/cv

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Show that heat flow in the opposite direction is impossible

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Air is compressed by a 15 kW compressor from P1 to P2. The air

temperature is maintained constant at 25oC during this process
as a result of heat transfer to the surrounding medium at 20oC.
Determine the rate of entropy change of the air.

Isothermal heat transfer process

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