On the misuse of Prigogine's Global Formulation of the Second Law and the Prediction of Negative Entropy Production in Macroscopic Irreversible Processes

On the misuse of Prigogine's Global Formulation of the Second Law and the Prediction of Negative Entropy Production in Macroscopic Irreversible Processes

This article presents thermodynamic and statistical mechanics arguments to proof the impossibility of a proposal1 in which the interplay of production and destruction entropy processes would explain why it is possible to do work more efficiently in an irreversible process than in a reversible one be...

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Main Author: Pedro J. Colmenares
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Los Andes 2008-01-01
Series:Avances en Química
Subjects:
Irreversibility
entropy production
Online Access:http://www.saber.ula.ve/bitstream/123456789/26065/1/articulo1.pdf
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spelling doaj-d3e524288c7a478aa274c536c15b5cd72020-11-25T01:18:35ZengUniversidad de Los AndesAvances en Química1856-53012008-01-01323541On the misuse of Prigogine's Global Formulation of the Second Law and the Prediction of Negative Entropy Production in Macroscopic Irreversible ProcessesPedro J. ColmenaresThis article presents thermodynamic and statistical mechanics arguments to proof the impossibility of a proposal1 in which the interplay of production and destruction entropy processes would explain why it is possible to do work more efficiently in an irreversible process than in a reversible one between the same initial and final states. We clarify all the thermodynamic misleading and, provide theoretical and experimental evidence2 that, a macroscopic level of description, the proposal has no chance of being observed phenomenologically because of the restrictions imposed by the second law of thermodynamics.www.saber.ula.ve/bitstream/123456789/26065/1/articulo1.pdfIrreversibilityentropy production
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On the misuse of Prigogine's Global Formulation of the Second Law and the Prediction of Negative Entropy Production in Macroscopic Irreversible Processes
Avances en Química
Irreversibility
entropy production
author_facet Pedro J. Colmenares
author_sort Pedro J. Colmenares
title On the misuse of Prigogine's Global Formulation of the Second Law and the Prediction of Negative Entropy Production in Macroscopic Irreversible Processes
title_short On the misuse of Prigogine's Global Formulation of the Second Law and the Prediction of Negative Entropy Production in Macroscopic Irreversible Processes
title_full On the misuse of Prigogine's Global Formulation of the Second Law and the Prediction of Negative Entropy Production in Macroscopic Irreversible Processes
title_fullStr On the misuse of Prigogine's Global Formulation of the Second Law and the Prediction of Negative Entropy Production in Macroscopic Irreversible Processes
title_full_unstemmed On the misuse of Prigogine's Global Formulation of the Second Law and the Prediction of Negative Entropy Production in Macroscopic Irreversible Processes
title_sort on the misuse of prigogine's global formulation of the second law and the prediction of negative entropy production in macroscopic irreversible processes
publisher Universidad de Los Andes
series Avances en Química
issn 1856-5301
publishDate 2008-01-01
description This article presents thermodynamic and statistical mechanics arguments to proof the impossibility of a proposal1 in which the interplay of production and destruction entropy processes would explain why it is possible to do work more efficiently in an irreversible process than in a reversible one between the same initial and final states. We clarify all the thermodynamic misleading and, provide theoretical and experimental evidence2 that, a macroscopic level of description, the proposal has no chance of being observed phenomenologically because of the restrictions imposed by the second law of thermodynamics.
topic Irreversibility
entropy production
url http://www.saber.ula.ve/bitstream/123456789/26065/1/articulo1.pdf
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