Bioenergy Principles and Applications

Abstract

The following can be credited to Gibbs and Helmholtz: the internal energy of a system is made up by reactants, where H is the energy contained by the number of chemical bonds in a given volume; G is the available energy to do work (movement, growth, maintenance, reproduction); S is entropy (energy loss); and T is temperature of a reaction (Gaudy and Gaudy, 1980). When a biochemical reaction takes place.