Engineering 10 Chp.6 Future Challenges Bruce Mayer, PE Licensed Electrical & Mechanical Engineer BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 1 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt FIRST and SECOND Laws of THERMODYNAMICS Class Question: Can Anyone Describe Either of the FIRST or SECOND Laws of ThermoDynamics? Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 2 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Laws of ThermoDyamics In the Instructor’s Opinion The SECOND Law is the GREATEST of all the “Laws of Physics” The ThermoDyamic Laws • Describe the Relationships & Connections Between Work↔Heat↔Energy • Describe and Quantify Reversibility and IRReversibilty • Explains What’s “The Best we can Do” Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 3 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt The “Laws” What are they? First Law of Thermodynamics • Energy can neither be CREATED nor DESTROYED – But Energy Can be Moved, or Changed to Other forms Second Law of Thermodynamics • NATURALLY OCCURRING processes are Directional – Natural process can go ONE WAY, but NOT the OTHER Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 4 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Reversibility Reversibility is the ability to run a process back and forth (backwards and forwards) infinitely withOUT Losses Money analogy: Currency Conversion • NO service fee (reversible): $100 113000₩, and one hour later at the same place, 113000₩ $100 • WITH service fees (IRreversible: $100 68€, and one hour later at the same place, 68€ $90 (5% fee both ways) Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 5 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Reversibility and Energy Pressure Voltage Motor Generator Turbine Electric Current Pump Fluid Flow If IRreversibilities were ELIMINATED, these systems would run FOREVER. • These Systems would then be Perpetual Motion Machines Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 6 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Example: Popping at Ballon A “reversible process” can go in either direction, but these processes are rare Generally, the irreversibility shows up as waste heat X Not reversible unless energy is expended Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 7 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Sources of Irreversibilities Friction (force drops) Voltage (electrical resistance) drops Pressure drops Temperature drops Concentration drops Magnetic Hysteresis (H Drops) Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 8 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Irreversibility Example It’s EASY To Mix the Cream Into the Coffee It’s extremely difficult to UNmix (separate) the Cream from the Mixed Coffee • It takes a LOT of Effort, or WORK, to separate Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 9 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt First Law of ThermoDynamics One form of work may be converted into Another, Or, work may be converted to heat, Or, heat may be converted to work, But, ALWAYS FINAL energy = INITIAL energy Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 10 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt 2nd Law of Thermodynamics We intuitively know that heat flows from higher to lower temperatures and NOT the other direction. • i.e., heat flows “DownHill”; just like water WHY don’t we see Water flow UpHill, or Heat move Cold→Hot on Occasion? Water & Heat Flow ONE-WAY Because These processes, which “down-flowhill”, are inherently IRreversible. Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 11 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt 11 Heat↔Work Conversions Heat transfer is inherently irreversible. • This places LIMITS on the amount of work that can be produced from heat. Heat can be converted to work using heat engines; e.g., • Jet engines (planes), • Steam engines (Old Locomotives) • Steam Turbines (Nuclear PowerPlants), • Internal combustion engines (automobiles) Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 12 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Heat into Work (Power Plant) W High-temperature Source, Thot (e.g. flame) Qhot Heat Engine • W = Mechanical Work Qhot W Qcold Low-temperature Sink, Tcold Qcold (e.g. cooling pond) • Q = Heat A heat engine takes in an amount of heat, Qhot, and produces work, W, and waste heat Qcold Qhot = W + Qcold Nicolas Sadi Carnot (kar nō) derived the LIMITS of converting heat into work Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 13 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Carnot Equation: Efficiency Given the heat ENGINE on the previous slide, the maximum work that can be Wmax Tcold 1 produced is Q T hot hot governed by: • where the temperatures are absolute (e.g. Kelvins) N.L.S. Carnot Thus, as Thot Tcold, Wmax 0 This ratio is also called the Thermal Efficiency, η Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 14 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Example: PowerPlant A BWR Nuclear PowerPlant Boiler Runs at about 1000 °F The “Heat Sink” is the cold Pacific Ocean at 52 °F What is ηmax ? max 52 °F = 512 °R Tcold 512 1 1 64.9% Thot 1460 Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 15 1000 °F = 1460 °R Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Moving Energy Cold→Hot W High-temperature Sink, Thot (e.g. OutSide Air) Qhot Heat Engine Low-temperature Source, Tcold Qcold (e.g. InSide AC) Not USING Heat, Just Moving it Around Moving Heat UPhill requires WORK The CoEfficient of Performance, CoP, informs about the effectiveness of AirConditioners and HeatPumps Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 16 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Carnot Equation: CoP Given the heat PUMP on the previous slide, the Minimum Work needed to move Q 1 cold heat UpHill is Wmin Thot Tcold 1 governed by: • where the temperatures are absolute (e.g. ºRankine) Thus, as Thot Tcold, Wmin 0 This ratio is also called the CoEfficient of Performance, CoP Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 17 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Example: Air Conditioner It’s REALLY Hot Outside, 105 °F A “Cold Blooded” person Keeps the house at 65 °F What is CoPmax? CoPmax Thot Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 18 105 °F = 565 °R 65 °F = 525 °R 1 1 13.1 Tcold 1 565 525 1 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot Founder of the Science of ThermoDynamics BORN: Paris, France, June 1 1796 DIED: Paris, France, August 24 1832 Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 19 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt “Water Powered” Hydrogen Car A “Hydrogen” car is the SAME THING as any Other “Electric Car” In BOTH Cases an Electric Motor turns the Wheels • In an “Electric Car” The Energy is stored in traditional Batteries • In an H2 car the energy is stored in Hydrogen Tanks – Sometimes at 5,000 psi Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 20 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt “Water Powered” Car It’s Easy Just get some H2O, split it into H2 & O2 Store the H2 in Big Tanks in your Car, Run it thru a “Fuel Cell” to turn an Electric Motor • Could also burn the H2 in a Heat Engine Off you go Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 21 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt “Water Powered” Car – Not so Fast Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 22 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Energy & Humans James Watt and His Predecessors (e.g., Savery & Newcomen) FREED Human-Kind From Muscle Power The Heat Engine Was One of the Great Advances in Human History • Enabled the “Industrial Age” The Generation & Application of Energy Multiplies The Capabilities of EVERY Person Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 23 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Watt’s Engine Watt, James (1736-1819) Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer, renowned for his improvements of the steam engine. Watt was born on January 19, 1736, in Greenock, Scotland. He worked as a mathematicalinstrument maker from the age of 19 and soon became interested in improving the steam engines, invented by the English engineers Thomas Savery and Thomas Newcomen, which were used at the time to pump water from mines. Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 24 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Energy Sources Let’s LIST Real And Potential Energy Sources OTHER Than Fossil Fuels 1. ? 2. ? 3. ? 4. ? 5. ? 6. ? Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 25 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt USA Electricity Production Mix - 2009 Solar 0.02% Electrical Power Source Source = USA Energy Information Adminsistration * http://www.eia.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/epates.html Other 0.30% Geo Thermal 0.38% Fuel Oil 0.99% Wood & BioMass 1.38% Wind 1.87% Hydro 6.93% Nuclear 20.25% Natural Gas 23.35% Coal 44.52% 0% USA_Electricity_Mix_1010.xls 5% 10% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% Fraction of Total Electrical Generation Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 26 15% Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt 45% 50% Energy Sources Fact & Fancy Wind Power • Wind Turbines Are VERY Attractive – Energy Input to Produce is Low – Incremental Added Capacity – NO Emissions of Any Kind • Limitations – Low Energy Density Must Cover Large Areas to Produce Much Energy Limited Viable Sites – Balance of System Costs (AC→AC Freq Converter) – Danger to WildLife; Particularly Birds (Raptors) Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 27 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Energy Sources Fact & Fancy Split Wood, Not Atoms → BioMass • Burning Garbage or Plant Matter is Attractive – Simultaneous Solution to Energy and Solid-Waste Problems – “Renewable” Resource – Low Energy Input to Produce • Limitation: Emission Stream is VERY Unpleasant – Scrubbing Wood-Smoke is MUCH Harder than Cleaning Gasoline Combustion ByProducts Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 28 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Glen Canyon Dam – Page, AZ Electrical Power Generation • River: Colorado River • Plant Type: Conventional • Powerhouse Type: Above Gnd • Turbine Type: Francis • Original Nameplate Capacity: 950,000 kW (950 MWe) • Installed Capacity:1,304 MWe • Year of Initial Operation:1964 • Net Generation (FY 2005): 3,208,591,407 kWh Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 29 • Rated Head:510 Bruce feet Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Glen Canyon Dam Aerial View Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 30 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Glen Canyon Dam – Page, AZ Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 31 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Glen Canyon Dam – Power Gen 150 rpm 48 Poles Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 32 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Glen Canyon Dam – Power Gen Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 33 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Glen Canyon Dam – Power Gen Set-UP Transformers 13.8kV 230kV or 13.8kV 345kV Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 34 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Francis Turbine Generator System Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 35 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Energy Sources Fact & Fancy Hydroelectric Power • Fancy: Can Provide for Future Growth • Fact: Almost ALL Viable Hydro Sites Have Been USED – Damming More Rivers is a Political Issue Ethanol as AutoMobile Fuel • Fancy: Ethanol Can Replace Oil As a Source for Automobile Fuel • Fact: Making Ethanol from Corn May Use MORE Energy than It Produces Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 36 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Energy Sources Fact & Fancy Ethanol Continued • DISTILLATION of Ethanol from Fermented Corn Requires Large Amounts of Energy – Usually Provided by Burning Fossil Fuels at the Distillation Site, or at the Electrical Power Plant Solar PhotoVoltaics (solar cells) Can Supply Future Energy Needs • Photovoltaic Solar-Electric Cells Have Many Advantages – Remote Siting, Incremental Expansion Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 37 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Energy Sources Fact & Fancy Solar Cells Continued • BUT Making a Solar Cell Requires Large Amounts of Energy – Silicon Cells are Made by, in the Beginning, MELTING SAND – Production Processes Can be Energy Intensive as Well • Connecting to the Existing Electric Grid Includes a Great Deal of “Balance of System” Components – DC→AC “Inverters”, Special Electrical boxes Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 38 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Energy Sources Fact & Fancy Solar Cells Continued • Solar Radiation has a Very Low “Energy Density” – Requires LARGE Areas to Collect Significant Amounts of Energy Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) FC http://fuelcells.si. edu/basics.htm Can Crowd-Out Other Uses: Solar-Farm vs. Tomato-Farm Hydrogen Fuel Cells • Based on Chemical Reaction 2H 2 O2 H 2O See also http://www.olympusmicro.com/primer/java/fuelcell/ Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 39 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Solar-Farm vs. Orange Orchard Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 40 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Energy Sources Fact & Fancy Hydrogen Fuel Cells Continued • The Fuel Cell Reaction Looks Very Good – NO VOCs/HydroCarbon Emissions – NO NOx emission – NO Greenhouse Gases (CO2) • But WHERE Do We Get the HYDROGEN? – There are NO Hydrogen WELLS or MINES • The Viable Sources of Massive Amounts of Hydrogen themselves Require Large Energy or Carbon Inputs Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 41 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Energy Sources Fact & Fancy In Apr04 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed an ambitious network of hydrogen filling stations by 2010 See also http://www.hydrogenhighway.ca.gov/ But How can we MAKE all the Hydrogen needed to Replace Gasoline? There are 3 Viable Alternatives Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 42 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Energy Sources Fact & Fancy 1. Use WIND or NUCLEAR Power to generate Electricity which, in Turn, would be Used to Electrolize WATER • Electrolosis applies Electrical current to water and splits it into oxygen and hydrogen, which are then separated… • The Chemical Reaction 2 H 2O 2 H 2 O2 ElectricalEnergy This is a Very Energy Intensive Process; about 75% efficient Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 43 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Ulf Bossel, “Does a Hydrogen Economy Make Sense?”, Proceedings of the IEEE | Vol. 94, No. 10, October 2006, pp 1826-1837 Electric Cars: H2 vs ElectroChem Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 44 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Energy Sources Fact & Fancy 2. Steam reforming of natural gas • If you take methane, the main component of natural gas, and expose it to steam, the final products are primarily carbon dioxide and hydrogen. Chemically CH4 2H 2O 4H 2 CO2 • This is already a Large-Volume Industrial Process, but it produces a LOT of CO2 – a GreenHouse Gas • Natural Gas Supplies seem ample Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 45 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Energy Sources Fact & Fancy 3. Coal gasification • hydrogen could be produced at centralized plants, compressed and most likely transported in trucks. • Coal is mostly carbon & hydrogen, but also contains some sulfur. Exposed to water at high temperature and high pressure, it chemically reacts to yield carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen. – But CO is Poisonous to Humans Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 46 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Energy Sources Fact & Fancy 3. Coal gasification, cont. • Oxygen from additional water vapor turns carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide. So the end products are primarily carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas. Chemically CH 0.8 S0.005 xH2O yH 2 zCO2 wH 2 S • We have LOTS of Coal, but still need to clean up the CO2 and H2S Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 47 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt http://www.eia.doe.gov/aer/overview.html * 2009 USA Primary Energy Production by Source Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 48 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt USA Energy Production Mix - 2008 BioMass, 5.29% Wind, 0.70% Solar/PV, 0.12% Geothermal, 0.49% Hydro, 3.33% Coal, 32.36% Nuclear, 11.47% NGPL, 3.28% Crude Oil, 14.27% Natural Gas, 28.69% Energy Information Administration / Annual Energy Review 2008 Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 49 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt Energy BackWork Ratio The BIG QUESTION for Any Energy Src • For Every Unit of Energy OUTput, How Much Energy was INput for the ENTIRE Production Stream? – In Electrical Power Generation, for the Steady-State Condition, this is called the “BackWork Ratio” Power to Run the Plant BWR Power Output of the Plant Many Energy Sources Fail This Question • e.g., Many Solar-Electric Systems will NOT Return the Energy Required to Make Them Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 50 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt All Done for Today California’s Hydrogen HighWay There were 143 H2 vehicles in 2007 Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 51 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt A Potential Energy Scenario Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 52 Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt USA Electricity Production Mix - 2008 Solar 0.02% Electrical Power Source Total = 4 125 675GWhe Other 0.28% Geo Thermal 0.36% Source = USA Energy Inf ormation Adminsistration * http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf /electricity/epa/epates.html Fuel Oil 1.12% Wood & BioMass 1.33% Wind 1.34% Hydro 6.18% Nuclear 19.54% Natural Gas 21.69% Coal 48.13% 0% USA_Electricity_Mix_0810.xls 5% 10% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% Fraction of Total Electrical Generation Engineering-10: Intro to Engineering 53 15% Bruce Mayer, PE BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu • ENGR-10_Lec-09_Chp6_Population_Energy.ppt 50% 55%