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Learning Outcomes : By the end of the course, students should be able to:
i) State and explain the 1st and 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.
ii) Apply the 1st and 2nd Law of Thermodynamics to calculate heat, work and
energy for both closed and open systems. In other words capable of deriving
and carry out energy and entropy balance on various systems
iii) analyse and calculate the performance of power and refrigeration cycles
3&4 Work and Heat It is expected that students will be able to:
• Define the meaning of work • Calculate the amount of work in a given
• Examine the various forms of work, with process
particular emphasis on the moving boundary • identify different type of work
work or PdV work commonly encountered in
reciprocating devices such as automotive
engines and compressors.
• Define the meaning of heat transfer
• Heat Transfer mode
5&6 First Law of Thermodynamics for closed It is expected that students will be able to:
system • Apply First Law of Thermodynamics
• Calculate the internal energy and
• Identify the types of energy that may be
enthalpy change
transferred to or from a thermodynamic
system
• Determine that energy in the form of heat or
work may cross the boundaries of a closed
(control mass) system
• Internal Energ and Enthalpy
• The Concept of heat capacity, Cv and Cp.
COURSE OUTLINE
7&8 First Law of Thermodynamics for open system It is expected that students will be able to:
• Apply the First Law of Thermodynamics
• Conservation of mass
for open system such in Heat
• First Law of Thermodynamics for open Exchanger, Nozzles, Throttle, turbines,
system pump, compressor, power plant and
• Steady state process refrigeration system
• Example of steady state process, i.e. Heat • Apply the First Law of Thermodynamics
Exchanger, Nozzles, Throttle, turbines, for simple transient process
pump, compressor, power plant and
refrigeration system
• The transient process
9 The Second Law of Thermodynamics It is expected that students will be able to:
• Heat Engines and refrigerators • describe the heat engines and
• The Second Law of Thermodynamics refrigeration system
• Reversible process • Describe the Second Law of
• The Carnot cycle Thermodynamics
• Describe The Carnot cycle
12 & 13 Second Law analysis for open system It is expected that students will be able to:
• Second law analysis for open system • Apply the second law to processes
• Principle of the increase of entropy • Explain the increase of entropy
• Entropy generation principle
• Efficiency • Develop the isentropic, or adiabatic,
efficiencies of various steady-flow
engineering devices and apply the
definitions to turbines, compressors,
and nozzles.
• Apply the entropy balance to various
systems.
COURSE OUTLINE
14 Power and Refrigeration Systems It is expected that students will be able to:
• Power systems • Analyze vapor power cycles in which
• The Rankine cycle the working fluid is alternately
• Effect of pressure and temperature on the vaporized and condensed.
Rankine cycle • Calculate the performance of Power
• Deviation of the actual cycle from ideal cycle cycle, refrigerators and heat pumps.
• The Vapor-Compression Refrigeration • Analyze the ideal vapor-compression
• Deviation of the actual Vapor-Compression refrigeration cycle
Refrigeration cycle from the ideal cycle
References : 1) Wylen G.V. , Sonntag R.,and Borgnakke C., Fundamentals of Thermodynamics, 6th
ed., John Wiley, New York, 2003
2) Yunus A. Çengel , Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach, 4th ed, Mc Graw
Hill, 2002