COMPRESSION PROCESSES
Thermodynamics
Summary
The important information from this chapter is summarized below.
Compression Processes Summary
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The ideal gas law can be used to determine how the properties of pressure,
temperature, and volume will be related during compression processes.
Pv = R T
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A fluid may be considered incompressible if one of two conditions is true:
The fluid is a liquid.
The fluid is a gas with a velocity greater than one-third of the speed of
sound in the gas.
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The work for certain types of processes can be determined as follows:
Constant pressure process
W1-2 = P(DV)
Constant volume process
W1-2 = V(DP)
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