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764 CHAPTER 19: Introduction to Coupled Phenomena<br />

Table 19.1 Some Examples of Known Coupled Phenomena<br />

Electrical Magnetic Mechanical<br />

Thermoelectric Thermomagnetic Thermomechanical<br />

Photoelectric Photomagnetic Mechanochemical<br />

Electrokinetic Galvanomagnetic Thermoelastic<br />

Electrostriction Magnetostriction Piezoelectric<br />

Electroluminescence Gyromagnetic Mechanocaloric<br />

Electro-optical Magneto-optical Piezo-optical<br />

Electrorheologic Electromagnetic Triboelectric<br />

Table 19.2 Some Common Types of Direct Energy Conversion Coupled Phenomena<br />

Energy Conversion Type Common Name Discoverer<br />

Approximate Maximum<br />

Efficiency<br />

Thermal to mechanical<br />

Heat engine Hero of Alexandria (~150 AD) ~60% (Carnot)<br />

(thermomechanical)<br />

Chemical to electrical<br />

Battery and fuel cell Volta (1800) and Davy (1802) 80–100%<br />

(electrochemical)<br />

Thermal to electric (thermoelectric) Thermocouple Seebeck (1821), Peltier (1834), ~10%<br />

Kelvin (1854)<br />

Photoelectric Becquerel (1839) ~25%<br />

Thermopile Weston (1884) 35–50%<br />

Thermionics Edison (1883) ~40%<br />

Vacuum tube Richardson (1912) ~40%<br />

Mechanical to electrical<br />

(mechanoelectric)<br />

MHD and EHD<br />

Piezoelectric<br />

Faraday (1831)<br />

Curie (1883)<br />

85–95%<br />

10−30%<br />

Thermal to kinetic energy Thermal ionization Saha (1920) ~10%<br />

Chemical to mechanical<br />

Animal muscles Appears in nature ~25%<br />

(mechanochemical)<br />

Potential energy to electrical energy Kelvin water dropper Kelvin (1860) ~50%<br />

Chemical to thermal (thermochemical) Combustion Appears in nature ~100%<br />

The reverse thermoelectric process is also possible. The application of a voltage to the leads of a thermocouple<br />

produces a heating or a cooling of the thermocouple junction. Though not very energy efficient, thermoelectric<br />

cooling is an important source of localized cooling in industries where space is a premium.<br />

Some of the many known types of coupled phenomena and their uses are illustrated in Tables 19.1 and 19.2.<br />

Nearly every energy conversion process has an efficiency of less than 100%, due to energy dissipation within the<br />

system, resulting from the inherent irreversibilities of the energy conversion process. The overall energy conversion<br />

efficiency is the product of all the individual energy conversion efficiencies within the system. For example,<br />

the technology in use today for providing electrical energy in your home consists of the following series of<br />

energy conversion processes.<br />

Chemical Thermal Mechanical Electrical Home Use<br />

Energy ! Energy ! Energy ! Energy ! Energy ! Environment<br />

ðCombustionÞ ðTurbineÞ ðGeneratorÞ ðAppliancesÞ<br />

so that η overall = η T η m η g η E η H , and since each η is less than 1.0 (100%), the overall η can be quite small. Consequently,<br />

there is considerable interest today in developing direct energy conversion technologies whose efficiencies<br />

are competitive with those of the conventional chemical and nuclear multilevel indirect energy conversion<br />

technologies.<br />

To understand the analysis of coupled phenomena, we introduce the concept of entropy production per unit<br />

time per unit volume. Because these terms have the form of an entropy production rate per unit volume, they<br />

are more conveniently called entropy production rate densities, abbreviated EPRD for convenience.<br />

EPRD=Entropy production rate density

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