Atmospheric thermodynamics

1 Introduction Since the early 1970s the need for a clean and environmental friendly alternative to the use of fossil fuel in combustion engines, especially in individual transportation, has grown with ups and downs over time. Increased awareness of climate change and global warming have enforced the so called hydrogen energy transition, which describes the significant change from the dominant oil based technologies towards the use of hydrogen as a clean fuel in transportation. Although hydrogen…

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Achievement Standard 90936 Credits – 2 Title – Physics in Action Introduction The refrigerator is a common household appliance that is an essential food storage technique in developed countries; it is made up of compartments which are thermally insulated and also has a heat pump which can be mechanical, electronic or chemical. The heat pump is a device which transfers heat from the interior of the fridge to an external environment, this means that the fridge is cooled to a temperature which is…

The term Thermochemistry refers to when heat is evolved or absorbed during a chemical reaction. When calculating the amount of energy, the number will always be expressed as a positive number. A negative sign will indicate whether the energy is evolved or absorbed. If the sign is negative, then the energy is evolved and if the sign is positive, then the energy is absorbed. The amount of heat that is released or absorbed will also be in units of Joules or Kilojoules per mol. There are two other…

3.2 Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) Carbon nanotubes have remarkable adsorption behavior in purification and detoxification of the environmental pollutants[12]. Their characteristics of being highly porous, having large specific area and being not solvable in aqueous solution because of the high Van der Waals interaction forces on the tube walls(pi-stacking) allow them to be great environmental pollutants adsorbent in solution. Thus, researchers have been concentrated on aqueous solution purification…

Case Study 1: 1.The most likely cause of the ABO typing discrepancy in the reverse type is due to “unexpected antibodies” such as a cold/room temperature reacting alloantibody. 2.Since the auto control didn’t agglutinate, an alloantibody is suspected. With that being said, it needs to be one that reacts at room temperature. Furthermore, based on the antigen typing of the patient P1 is suspected to be interfering with the ABO results. The Lewis antigen was ruled out due to it being present on…

Energy can be potential or kinetic. Radiant energy is a form of Kinetic energy. Movement of atoms, molecules, objects, waves, substances referring to a Kinetic energy. There are many different forms of kinetic energies like sound, motion, thermal energy, electrical energy. Nevertheless, there would be no life on Earth without radiant energy. What is radiant energy? The energy of electromagnetic waves and gravitational radiation is radiant energy. Radiant energy is the result of a change in…

second laws of thermodynamics. How does the laws of thermodynamics underlie every organism’s ability to function? The first law of thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed; however, it can be converted to other forms. An everyday illustration of the first law of thermodynamic is photosynthesis in which a plant uses sunlight, a form of light energy, to produce sugars that are assembled into glucose, which is a type of chemical energy. The second law of thermodynamics…

Theory: Boyle’s Law states that when temperature (T) is kept constant, pressure (P) and volume (V) have an inversely proportional relationship. Boyle’s constant (B) can be expressed by V=B/Pwhere volume is (in this lab) cm^3 and pressure is in atm. Charles’ Law states that when pressure is held constant, temperature and volume are directly proportional. Charles’ constant (C ) can be expressed by V=CTwhere volume is in cm^3 and temperature is in Kelvin. Gay-Lussac’s Law states that when…

Introduction Theoretically, energy in every isolated system will always be conserved so for every action there will be a reaction to stabilise the system (Ellert, G, n.d.). Such a term does also appear in the physics of fluids motion. Fluids are things that can flow such as gas, water or oil. In fluid motion physics there are two theories that are involved with the law of conservation and they are Bernoulli’s law and continuity equation. Bernoulli’s law is derived from the energy conservation…