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Pressure Volume Plots(Air as an Ideal Gas)

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This page helps you experiment with pressure volume plots for air (ideal gas). Left click anywhere on the yellow pressure-volume canvas to create a point of interest and press one of the isochor/ isobar/ isotherm/ isentropic/ polytropic buttons. More details are in the getting started guide . The heatandwork website has notes on Thermodynamic Concepts , Fluid Properties , and Energy Transfer in both Closed Systems and Open Systems .

Plant Diagram  .



Pressure-Volume Graph  .

Problem type: xxx. (non flow)     Max. vol. (litres, m^3/kg): Max. pressure (bar): Mass (kg, kg/s):

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Table 1. Thermodynamic state at POI
property pressure, bar  . temperature, K  . sp. vol, m^3/kg  . vol, litres  . enthalpy, kJ/kg  . int. en., kJ/kg  . entropy, kJ/kg K  .
value -- -- -- -- -- -- --
diff.  . -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Curve plotting options: Constant volume. Constant pressure. Constant temperature. Constant entropy. Polytropic. index: Straight line. Symbol. counter: Delete curve.


Curve manipulation: Manipulate curve to define a process   Start line: ( litres ): Start of process or animation end line: End of process or animation Reverse Animation Integration.

Table 2. Energy Balance Energy Balance Description.

Query Response

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