Lectures:
The
course meets four days per week for 50-minute lectures. Topics
Include:
- Availability
analysis
- Concept
of availability (exergy) and its applications
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Concept of irreversibility and the second law efficiency
- Vapor
and gas cycles
-
Power and refrigeration Rankine cycles
-
Rankine cycle with reheat and regeneration
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Cascade refrigeration systems
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Air-standard Otto, Diesel, Ericcson, and Stirling cycles
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Gas turbine power plants - Brayton cycle
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Cycles with intercooling and regeneration
- Thermodynamic
relations
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Maxwell relations
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Generalized enthalpy, entropy and fugacity charts
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Ideal and non-ideal mixtures
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Fundamental thermodynamic functions
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Psychrometric chart
- Reactive
mixtures and chemical and phase equilibrium
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Introduction to combustion
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Adiabatic flame temperature
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Chemical equilibrium o Determination of equilibrium composition
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Phase equilibrium and Gibbs phase rule
Assignments/Evaluation:
Assignments
and evaluations methods vary by instructor and may include homework,
quizzes, and exams.
Textbook:
Fundamentals
of Engineering Thermodynamics 4th Edition, by M. J.
Moran and H. N. Shapiro, Wiley 1998.
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