Abstract
This paper is part of a session dealing with
the fundamentals of energy conservation.
The paper is intended to be a tutorial for
engineers who have not been trained in thermodynamics,
or have not practiced recently
and need some refresher material.
The first and second laws of thermodynamics
will be reviewed in this paper from the
context of how they relate to energy conservation.
Some simple examples of how they
are used to analyze energy conservation
systems will be presented.
The use of device efficiencies will be explained.
Turbine expansions and other commonly
encountered calculations will be demonstrated.
Witte, L. C. (1986). The Thermodynamics of Energy Conservation. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu). Available electronically from
https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /92971.