University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) FACOLTA’ DI INGEGNERIA - CLASSE “INDUSTRIALE” LAUREA SPECIALISTICA IN INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE PIANIFICAZIONE E GESTIONE DELLE INFRASTRUTTURE ENERGETICHE PRODUCTION OF MECHANICAL ENERGY and ELECTRICAL ENERGY Prof. Ing. Antonio Ficarella http://www.ing.unile.it/didattica/ [email protected] 1 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) CONVERSION OF THERMAL ENERGY almost all of the mechanical energy produced today is produced from the conversion of thermal energy in some sort of a heat engine thermodynamic power cycle series of thermodynamic processes that returns the working fluid to its initial state to plot the cycle on a graph of property coordinates (P-vs; T-s) 2 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) the cyclic integral of work is equal to the cyclic integral of heat 3 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) specific work w AN HIGH VALUE OF SPECIFIC WORK IS DESIDERABLE 4 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) REVERSIBLE CYCLES friction transfer of heat across a finite temperature difference (externally) reversible power cycles Carnot cycle, Ericcson cycle, Stirling cycle two reversible isothermal processes for heat addition and rejection 5 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 6 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 7 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 8 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 9 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 10 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINE CYCLES internal combustion external combustion 11 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) compression limit ratio to the max value of compression ratio detonation 12 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) DIESEL ENGINE compression-ignition 13 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) IC ENGINES four-stroke-cycle two-stroke-cycle 14 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 15 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) ROTARY ENGINES (WANKEL) 16 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) ENGINE PERFORMANCE brake horsepower (Bhp) power delivered to the driveshaft indicated power horsepower (Ihp) delivered to the piston difference: friction horsepower Fhp 17 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) brake net mean effective pressure (Bmep) work output per piston displacement indicate mean effective pressure (Imep) HORSEPOWER (Bhp o Ihp) = =(Bmep or Imep)VdisNp/60 Np=number of power strokes per minute C = n. of cylinders, Ne = revolution per minute, ζ=1 two-stroke, 2 four-stroke 18 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) brake specific fuel consumption thermal efficiency ηth=1/(Bsfc*LHV) volumetric can efficiency exceed 100% if supercharged 19 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) EXTERNAL-COMBUSTION SYSTEMS 20 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) rp=compressor pressure ratio 21 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) REGENERATIVE BRAYTON CYCLE 22 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 23 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 24 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) VAPOR-POWER CYCLES 25 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 26 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 27 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 28 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 29 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 30 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) COMBINED CYCLES two power cycles, A and B 31 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 32 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 33 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 34 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) STEAM TURBINES device that converts the stored mechanical energy in a fluid into a rotational mechanical energy steam turbine gas turbine water turbine wind turbine 35 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 36 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 37 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) TURBINE BLADING impulse stage reaction stage IMPULSE STAGE all of the steam first pass through a nozzle block where the compressed-fluid potential energy is converted into kinetic energy the high-velocity steam jet is the directed toward the moving blades – force on the moving blade 38 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) POWER 39 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 40 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 41 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) HYDRAULIC TURBINES KAPLAN 42 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) FRANCIS 43 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) PELTON 44 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) WIND TURBINES 45 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 46 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 47 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 48 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) ELECTRIC MOTORS when a direct current is passed through a conductor, a magnetic field is produced magnetic flow from the north pole to the south pole net force on the conductor 49 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 50 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) direct-current ac motor motor direct current supplied to the armature (rotor): SYNCHRONOUS inducing a current in the rotor conductors SLIP: the armature runs at slower angular velocity than the synchronous speed 51 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 52 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 53 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 54 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) ELECTROMAGNETIC PUMP converts electrical energy directly into kinetic energy of a conducting fluid 55 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) PRODUCTION OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION NOT LIMITED TO THE EFFICIENCY OF A REVERSIBLE ENGINE: CHEMICAL ENERGY fuel cell - battery ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY thermoelectric converter - thermoionic max efficiency 1-TL/TH photovoltaic (solar) cell NUCLEAR ENERGY (nuclear battery) MECHANICAL ENERGY conventional generators magneto hydrodynamic – electro gas dynamic 56 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) SEEBECK EFFECTS a voltage is produced in a circuit of two dissimilar materials if the two junctions are maintained at different temperatures PELTIER EFFECT if a direct current is passed through a circuit of dissimilar materials, one of the junctions will be heated and the other cooled 57 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) thermoelectric refrigerators 58 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) THERMOIONIC CONVERTERS the electrons are boiled-off the hot cathode and condensed on the cold anode 59 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) CHEMICAL ENERGY BATTERY FUEL CELL 60 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) FUEL CELL PERFORMANCE the total energy released in any chemical reaction is equal to the change in the enthalpy of formation 61 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) unfortunately, in an oxidation reaction, some of the chemical energy is converted into thermal energy and only the balance can be converted into electricity TΔS is the reversible heat transfer Gibbs free energy 62 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) p = partial pressure Eg = cell voltage We = electrical power n = mol of electrons released Fy = charge associated with 1 kg*mol of electrons NERNST EQUATION (θ=p) 63 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) max conversion efficiency actual conversion efficiency 64 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 65 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) SOLAR CELLS 66 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 67 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) max conversion efficiency 25% actual efficiency range 15-20% 68 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) MECHANICAL ENERGY Faraday effect a voltage gradient is produced in an electrical conductor that is forced perpendicularly through a magnetic field AC generators DC DC power supply for the field winding generators DC power supply for the field winding 69 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 70 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC GENERATORS 71 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) 72 University of Salento (Italy) - Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Research Center for Energy and Environment (UNILECCE-DII-CREA) ELECTROSTATIC MECHANICAL GENERATORS electrons are generated at the entrance of the EGD (electrogasdynamic converter) duct – the ionized-gas particles are carried down the duct 73
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