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    Real gases are nonideal gases whose molecules occupy space and have interactions; consequently, they do not adhere to the ideal gas law. To understand...
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    Gas is one of the four fundamental states of matter. The others are solid, liquid, and plasma. A pure gas may be made up of individual atoms (e.g. a noble...
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    temperature and pressure, many real gases behave qualitatively like an ideal gas where the gas molecules (or atoms for monatomic gas) play the role of the ideal...
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    The ideal gas law, also called the general gas equation, is the equation of state of a hypothetical ideal gas. It is a good approximation of the behavior...
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  • GasGas Motorcycles is a Spanish motorcycle manufacturer specialising in off-road and trial bikes. The company was founded in 1985 in Salt, Girona, Catalonia...
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    gas deviation factor, describes the deviation of a real gas from ideal gas behaviour. It is simply defined as the ratio of the molar volume of a gas to...
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    factor and is denoted by γ (gamma) for an ideal gas or κ (kappa), the isentropic exponent for a real gas. The symbol γ is used by aerospace and chemical...
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    and gas transaction in Africa for the year 2020. Heirs Holdings' Investments are organised into six verticals: Financial Services, Power, Oil and Gas, Real...
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    the effect of attractive forces between molecules in the gas. However, real non-ideal gases may be expected to exhibit a sign change between positive...
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    the Rankine cycle). This is a combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant. These achieve a best-of-class real (see below) thermal efficiency of around 64%...
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    describe deviations of the thermodynamic properties of a real gas from those expected from an ideal gas. The compressibility factor is defined as Z = p V m...
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  • Fugacity (section Gas)
    In chemical thermodynamics, the fugacity of a real gas is an effective partial pressure which replaces the mechanical partial pressure in an accurate computation...
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    surroundings by the gas. There is no change in the gas internal energy, and no change in the gas temperature if it is an ideal gas. Heat QH > 0 is absorbed...
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    as well as on temperature for liquids, solids, and real gases. In the isothermal compression of a gas there is work done on the system to decrease the volume...
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    appear as a straight horizontal line. If an ideal gas is used in an isochoric process, and the quantity of gas stays constant, then the increase in energy is...
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    the above Mayer relation is only exact for an ideal gas and would be different for any real gas. The specific heat capacity of a material on a per mass...
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  • behaviour of gases under fixed pressure, volume, amount of gas, and absolute temperature conditions are called gas laws. The basic gas laws were discovered...
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    pressure of the gas, n is the amount of substance, T is the absolute temperature, V is the volume, R is the ideal gas constant. Real gases exhibit a more...
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    {\displaystyle n=+\infty } for an isochoric process. In addition, when the ideal gas law applies: n = 1 {\displaystyle n=1} for an isothermal process, n = γ {\displaystyle...
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    cycle work. Figure 2 shows the streaklines which indicate how gas flows through a real Stirling engine. The vertical colored lines delineate the volumes...
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    monatomic gas, 5 for a diatomic gas or a gas of linear molecules such as carbon dioxide). For a monatomic ideal gas, γ = ⁠5/3⁠, and for a diatomic gas (such...
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    where n {\displaystyle n} is the number of moles of the gas, R {\displaystyle R} is the universal gas constant, γ {\displaystyle \gamma } is the heat capacity...
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    Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the gases in the atmosphere that raise the surface temperature of planets such as the Earth. What distinguishes them from other...
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    volume) molar heat capacity of the gas; c V {\displaystyle c_{V}} is constant for an ideal gas. The internal energy of any gas (ideal or not) may be written...
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    Mathematical Theory of Non-uniform gases. An Account of the Kinetic Theory of Viscosity, Thermal Conduction and Diffusion in Gases, third edition 1970, Cambridge...
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    A gas turbine or gas turbine engine is a type of continuous flow internal combustion engine. The main parts common to all gas turbine engines form the...
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  • perfect gas is a theoretical gas model that differs from real gases in specific ways that makes certain calculations easier to handle. In all perfect gas models...
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    temperature, the thermodynamic concept, and that of the kinetic theory of gases and other materials. The zeroth law belongs to the thermodynamic concept...
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    equation of state State-transition equation Gas laws Departure function Table of thermodynamic equations Real gas Cluster expansion Perrot, Pierre (1998)...
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    science." In his 1873 thesis, Van der Waals noted the non-ideality of real gases and attributed it to the existence of intermolecular interactions. He...
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