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

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关键词: Irreversibility;    entropy production;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

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