A computer program, GeoSteamNet, for the numerical simulation of steam transport in geothermal pipeline networks is written in Visual Studio .NET. The program considers (a) internally consistent thermodynamic properties of water, and (b) a numerical algorithm based on the principles of conservation of mass, linear momentum (Newton’s second law), and energy (the first and second laws of thermody...

Thermodynamic analysis of the cracking of hexane has been conducted by the Gibbs free energy minimization method and second law analysis of overall reactions. By-products have been divided into three groups of methane, alkynes and aromatics and their possible production paths have been discussed. Effect of operating conditions such as temperature and steam-to-hexane ratio on the cracking perfor...

Analysis of the stoichiometric structure of metabolic networks provides insights into the relationships between structure, function, and regulation of metabolic systems. Based on knowledge of only reaction stoichiometry, certain aspects of network functionality and robustness can be predicted. Current theories focus on breaking a metabolic network down into non-decomposable pathways able to ope...

recent developments in hydrogen production by thermochemical water decomposition are reported,with an emphasis on hydrogen production from non-fossil energy sources such as nuclear and solar. numerousdevelopments have been made on sulphur-iodine, copper-chlorine and other thermochemicalcycles. efforts are described to lower the temperatures required in thermochemical cycles, so as to broadenthe...

the thermodynamic functions such as enthalpy (h), gibbs free energy (g) and entropy (s) of serineand threonine amino acids were theoretically studied at different condition (solvents andtemperatures) by using gussian o3, software. first, the structural optimization of isolated serine andthreonine were done in the gas phase by using the hartree-fock (hf) level of theory with 3-21g, 6-31g and 6-3...

Active control of heat flux can be realized with transformation optics (TO) thermal metamaterials. Recently, a new class of metamaterial tunable cells has been proposed, aiming to significantly reduce the difficulty of fabrication and to flexibly switch functions by employing several cells assembled on related positions following the TO design. However, owing to the integration and rotation of ...

From the thermodynamic equilibrium properties of a two-level system with variable energy-level gap ∆, and a careful distinction between the Gibbs relation dE = T dS + (E/∆) d∆ and the energy balance equation dE = δQ← − δW→, we infer some important aspects of the second law of thermodynamics and, contrary to a recent suggestion based on the analysis of an Otto-like thermodynamic cycle between tw...

This article reviews thermodynamic relationships in the brain in an attempt to consolidate current research in systems neuroscience. The present synthesis supports proposals that thermodynamic information in the brain can be quantified to an appreciable degree of objectivity, that many qualitative properties of information in systems of the brain can be inferred by observing changes in thermody...

In this paper, we present a method for characterizing the evolution of time-varying complex networks by adopting a thermodynamic representation of network structure computed from a polynomial (or algebraic) characterization of graph structure. Commencing from a representation of graph structure based on a characteristic polynomial computed from the normalized Laplacian matrix, we show how the p...