1. Analysis of Power Plant : A Scientific Engineering
P M V Subbarao
Professor
Mechanical Engineering Department
An Exclusive Engineering Science for Extrasomatic Needs ……..

2. The Family of Steam Engines
A Direct Hardware Creations to the Essential Need …..

3. James Watt Engine in Human Development
Watt's Double-Acting Engine, 1784.
The Watt Hammer, 1784.
John Fitch, 1788
Trevithick's Locomotive, 1804
The " Atlantlc," 1832.
Steam Engine Reached its pinnacle in size when it was called to drive 5 MW electric generator.

4. Steam Engine As an Alternate to Horse or Cattle…..
James Watt Engine
Watt's Double-Acting Engine, 1784.
The Watt Hammer, 1784.
Trevithick's Locomotive, 1804
The " Atlantlc," 1832.
Steam Engine Reached its pinnacle in size when it was called to drive 5 MW electric generator.
Steam Engine As an Alternate to Horse or Cattle…..

5. Definition of Thermodynamics
Thermodynamics is defined as the science of energy.
The name Thermodynamics stems from the Greek words therme (Heat) and dynamics (Power).
Clearly depicting the early efforts to convert heat into power.
Steam power already had many uses - draining water from mines, excavating ports and rivers, forging iron, grinding grain, and spinning and weaving cloth - but it was inefficient.

6. The Family of Steam Engines
A Direct Hardware Creations to the Essential Need …..

7. Pearl Street Station
Thomas Edison in September 1882 achieved his vision of a full-scale central power station

8. Steam Tractors
The first steam tractors that were designed specifically for agricultural uses were portable engines built on skids or on wheels and transported to the work area using horses.
Later models used the power of the steam engine itself to power a drive train to move the machine and were first known as "traction drive" engines.
This was which eventually was shortened to "tractor".

9. Steam Wagon/Tractor : Last decade of 19th Century
By 1921, steam tractors had demonstrated clear economic advantages over horse power for heavy hauling and short journeys.
London market roads were free of Horse faeces….

10. Sadi Nicolas Léonard Carnot
1814: After graduating, Carnot went to the École du Génie at Metz to take the two year course in military engineering.
1819: Carnot began to attend courses at various institutions in Paris.
1821: Carnot began the work which led to the mathematical theory of heat and helped start the modern theory of thermodynamics.
The problem occupying Carnot was how to design good steam engines.
Steam power already had many uses - draining water from mines, excavating ports and rivers, forging iron, grinding grain, and spinning and weaving cloth - but it was inefficient.

11. Carnot’s Thinking
It irked Carnot particularly that the British had progressed so far through the genius of a few engineers who lacked formal scientific education.
British engineers had also accumulated and published reliable data about the efficiency of many types of engines under actual running conditions.
They vigorously argued the merits of low- and high-pressure engines and of single-cylinder and multi-cylinder engines.
1822 – 1823 : Carnot attempted to find a mathematical expression for the work produced by one kilogram of steam.

12. The Quintessential Novelty
Carnot's work is distinguished for his careful, clear analysis of the units and concepts employed and for his use of both an adiabatic working stage and an isothermal stage in which work is consumed.
1824 : Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu et sur les machines propres à développer cette puissance which includes his description of the;
“ Mathematical Model for Carnot cycle".
Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment.
Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact.
— Ernst Mach

13. Carnot’s Analysis of Watts Engine

14. The Thermodynamic Cycle
Coal (Resource)
Ability to Perform
The power (Need)
Ecological Nuisance

15. The Thermodynamic Cycle
Burn Coal (to add Heat slowly)
Ability to Perform
The Work
(Move piston slowly)
Ecological Nuisance

16. Carnot’s Analysis of Watts Engine

17. The Carnot Cycle T x

18. Impact of Heat & Work Transfers on Steam
How to quantify the changes in steam due to work and heat transfer?
Humans depended on their senses to define these changes.
Out of Five senses, Three senses could not quantify/recognize these changes.
Only two senses could quantify these changes:
Vision : Volume (m3)
Touch : Pressure (kPa) and Temperature (C or K)
None of the above are equivalent to heat or work.
There must be a relation between these properties and heat & work.

19. Carnot Model for Engine
Maximum Power : RPM
Maximum Torque rpm

20. Carnot Model for Engine

21. Cost to Benefit Ratio of Carnot Model
Work/power developed by the engine is the benefit.
Fuel mining, transportation, processing incur cost.
It is essential to develop a cost to benefit ration.
The scientific version of this ratio is named as efficiency.

22. Perpetual Power Plant
Any power plant which violates first law is called as PPP.
A PPP is a hardware which works continuously in cycle and
generates work only or
consumes work only or
accepts heat only or
rejects heat only.
It is impossible to construct A Perpetual Motion Machine of first kind (PPP – 1).

23. The Carnot Cycle T x

24. All Substance Give the Same Efficiency
Engines had been proposed and constructed using working substances other than water, with no dramatic improvement in efficiency.
Carnot reasoning implies that : to the extent that is it possible to eliminate frictional losses and other sources of inefficient operation, all substances will do the same work for the same temperatures of operation.
All these situations led to the development of Ideal model for engine using Adiabatic and isothermal processes.
He could get an expression for efficiency independent of substance only through this model.

25. A Deeper Study of Steam Production

26. The Microscopic View
When a liquid evaporates to a gas in a closed container, the molecules cannot escape.
Some of the gas molecules will eventually strike the condensed phase and condense back into it.
When the rate of condensation of the gas becomes equal to the rate of evaporation of the liquid or solid, the amount of gas, liquid and/or solid no longer changes.
The gas in the container is in equilibrium with the liquid or solid.

27. Starting from Liquid State
Let's consider the results of heating liquid from 20°C
For Ammonia Pressure must be greater than 857.5kPa
For Ammonia Pressure must be greater than kPa
20C

28. State 1 Liquid Ammonia @ 1 MPa Liquid Water @ 100 kPa 20C
In the compressed liquid region, the properties of the liquid are approximately equal to the properties of the saturated liquid state at the temperature.

29. State 2 : Saturated Liquid
Process 1-2:
The temperature and specific volume will increase from the compressed liquid, or subcooled liquid, state 1, to the saturated liquid state 2.
Saturated Liquid 1 MPa &24.9C
Saturated Liquid 100 kPa & 99.62C
state 2

30. State 3 : Equilibrium Mixture of Saturated Liquid Vapour
Process 2-3:
At state 2 the liquid has reached the temperature at which it begins to boil, called the saturation temperature, and is said to exist as a saturated liquid.
Properties at the saturated liquid state are noted by the subscript f and v2 = vf.
During the phase change both the temperature and pressure remain constant.
Water boils at 99.62°C when the pressure is 100kPa .
Ammonia boils at 24.99°C when the pressure is 1000 kPa ).
At state 3 the liquid and vapor phase are in equilibrium and any point on the line between states 2 and 3 has the same temperature and pressure.

31. State 4 : Saturated Vapour
Process 3-4:
At state 4 a saturated vapor exists and vaporization is complete.
The subscript g will always denote a saturated vapor state.
Note : v4 = vg.

33. Saturated Water Vs Saturated Steam
Temperature
Pressure
Specific Volume, m3/kg 0C
MPa
Saturated Liquid
Saturated Vapour
100
0.1013
1.673
120
0.1985
0.8919
150
0.4759
0.3928
200
1.554
0.1274
250
3.973
300
8.581

34. Saturated Liquid Ammonia Vs Saturated Vapour Ammnia
Temperature
Pressure
Specific Volume, m3/kg 0C
MPa
Saturated Liquid
Saturated Vapour
100
6.254
120
9.107
132.3
11.33

35. State 5 : Superheated Vapour
Process 4-5:
If the constant pressure heating is continued, the temperature will begin to increase above the saturation temperature.
State 5 is called a superheated state because T5 is greater than the saturation temperature for the pressure.
Superheated 1 MPa &300C
Superheated 100 kPa & 300C

36. Constant Pressure Process

37. The Theory of Producing Steam
Water and steam can be easily used as heat carriers in heating systems.
Water boils and evaporates at 100°C under atmospheric pressure.
By higher pressure, water evaporates at higher temperature - e.g. a pressure of 10 bar equals an evaporation temperature of ~179.90C.
At a constant pressure of 10 MPa the saturation temperature is C.

38. Wet Vapour
Wet vapour is a mixture of vapour and liquid water at same temperature and pressure.
Saturation pressure is the pressure at which the liquid and vapor phases are in equilibrium at a given temperature.
Saturation temperature is the temperature at which the liquid and vapor phases are in equilibrium at a given pressure.
Saturation Pressure is function of temperature or vice versa.
T = F(p)
The Wagner-Ambrose equation

39. Equations for Saturation Conditions of Water
Saturation Properties of Water :

40. Many Constant Pressure Processes
If all of the saturated liquid states are connected, the saturated liquid line is established.
If all of the saturated vapor states are connected, the saturated vapor line is established.
These two lines intersect at the critical point and form what is often called the “steam dome.”
The critical point of water is oC, MPa
The critical point of ammonia is 132.3oC, MPa

41. Density of Saturated Liquid

42. Density of Saturated Vapour

43. The Vapour Dome
The region between the saturated liquid line and the saturated vapor line is called by these terms:
Saturated liquid-vapor mixture region,
Wet region,
Two-phase region, and just
The saturation region.
The trend of the temperature following a constant pressure line is to increase with increasing volume.
The trend of the pressure following a constant temperature line is to decrease with increasing volume.

44. Peculiar Nature of Wet Vapour
Pressure and temperature are not independent properties.
Either p & V or T& V are independent pair.
P & v or T & v can also be considered.
A new property is to be defined for steam for ease of design.
This is called Quality or dryness fraction of wet steam.

45. Quality and Saturated Liquid-Vapor (Wet) Mixture
Now, let’s review the constant pressure heat addition process for water shown in Figure.
The state 3 is a mixture of saturated liquid and saturated vapor.
How do we locate it on the T-v diagram?
To establish the location of state 3 a new parameter called the quality x is defined as

46. The quality is zero for the saturated liquid and one for the saturated vapor (0x  1).
The average specific volume at any state 3 is given in terms of the quality as follows.
Consider a mixture of saturated liquid and saturated vapor.
The liquid has a mass mf and occupies a volume Vf.
The vapor has a mass mg and occupies a volume Vg.

47. Critical Point
The region to the left of the saturated liquid line and below the critical temperature is called the compressed liquid region.
The region to the right of the saturated vapor line and above the critical temperature is called the supercritical region.
At temperatures and pressures above the critical point, the phase transition from liquid to vapor is no longer discrete.

48. Flow Boiling at sub-critical Pressure

49. Religious to Secular Attitude

50. Thermodynamic Properties at Super Critical Pressures

51. Specific heat of Supercritical Water

52. Pseudo Critical Line

53. Property Diagrams

54. Pressure Volume Diagram

55. Vapour
Temperature of the substance is higher than the saturation temperature at a given pressure.
Pressure of the substance is lower than the saturation pressure at a given temperature.
Molecules of substance move in random paths.
Weak inter-molecular forces.
Occupy entire volume of the container : No free surface.
Very low density
Highly compressible.

56. Behaviour of Vapour  = interatomic potential, Joules.
r = separation of molecules, nm (mean Free path).
r = equivalent “hard sphere” radius of molecule (overlap of electron clouds).
At high T, high p, collisions in the repulsive part of – positive deviations from constancy.
At low T, moderate p, collisions in the attractive portion of  – negative deviations from constancy.

57. P – v- T Relation v = f (p,T) The specific volume of A vapour:
Greatest need for EoS of saturated and superheated steam.
R and a are constants.
The is called as Rankine’s Equation of state, 1849.

58. Pressure Volume Diagram

59. Van der Waals EOS
One of the oldest but most extensively used of the EOS of non ideal gases
Any EOS model must reproduce graphs such as that of the previous
a, b are the Van der Waals constants for the particular gas;
for water: a = J-m3/mole2; b = 3.049x10-5 m3/mole,

60. JO H A N N E S D . V A N D E R W A A L S The equation of state for gases and liquids Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1910
I intend to discuss in sequence:
(1) the broad outlines of my equation of state and how I arrived at it;
(2) what my attitude was and still is to that equation;
(3) how in the last four years I have sought to account for the discrepancies which remained between the experimental results and this equation;
(4) how I have also sought to explain the behaviour of binary and ternary mixtures by means of the equation of state.

61. Van der Waals EOS
a, b are the Van der Waals constants for the particular gas;
for water: a = J-m3/mole2; b = 3.049x10-5 m3/mole,

62. Van der Waals Coefficients
Gas
a (Pa m3)
B (m3/mol)
Helium
3.46 x 10-3
23.71 x 10-6
Neon
2.12 x 10-2
17.10 x 10-6
Hydrogen
2.45 x 10-2
26.61 x 10-6
Carbon dioxide
3.96 x 10-1
42.69 x 10-6
Water vapor
5.47 x 10-1
30.52 x 10-6

63. Van der Waals Isotherms

64. Isotherms of Real Gases

65. Improved Cubic Equations of State

66. The constants a, b, c, Ao, Bo varies with substance

68. The Ideal Gas Equation of State