Thermodynamics

Thermodynamics

The science of energy and its ability to cause changes.

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Multistage compression with intercooling

Physics; Thermodynamics

A process that carries out the compression in a compressor in stages and cools the gas in between each stage. This process deceases the required work to compress a gas between two specified ...

The extent to which a regenerator approaches an ideal regenerator. It is defined as the ratio of the heat transfer to the compressor exit gas to the maximum possible heat transfer to the compressor ...

Diffuser efficiency

Physics; Thermodynamics

A measure of a diffuser's ability to increase the pressure of a fluid. It is expressed as the ratio of the kinetic energy that can be converted to pressure rise if the fluid is discharged at the ...

Natural gas

Physics; Thermodynamics

Found in gas wells or oil wells, natural gas is composed mainly of methane and small amounts of ethane, propane, hydrogen, helium, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfate, and water vapor. It is ...

Supersaturation

Physics; Thermodynamics

The phenomenon caused by steam flowing through a nozzle at high velocities and exiting it in the saturated region. Since the duration of the steam in the nozzle is small, and there may not be ...

Complete combustion

Physics; Thermodynamics

A combustion process in which all the carbon in the fuel burns to CO2, all the hydrogen burns to H2O, and all the sulphur (if any) burns to SO2. In other words, all combustible components of a fuel ...

Discharge coefficient

Physics; Thermodynamics

A parameter that expresses the performance of a nozzle, which is defined as the ratio of the mass flow rate through the nozzle to the mass flow rate of isentropic flow through the nozzle from the ...