Outline
The course has been designed to introduce concepts in the following sequence.
- Introduction
- Fundamental Concepts
- Work, Energy and Heat
- First Law ( ΔU = Q + W)
- Mass and Energy Balances for Open Systems
- Volumetric Properties of Pure Fluids - Critical Behaviour
- Ideal Gas Processes
- Virial Equation and Cubic Equations of State
- Generalized Correlations for Fluids
- Sensible Heat and Latent Heat
- Second Law of Thermodynamics (ΔS[system + surroundings]≥ 0)
- Entropy and Entropy Balances
- Thermodynamic Properties of Fluids (Gibbs Equations and Maxwell's Equations)
- Residual Properties
- Thermodynamic Diagrams and Tables (Mollier, Steam Tables, et alia)
- Application of Thermodynamics to Flow Process - Control Volumes and Balances around Process Equipment
- Power cycles
- Refrigeration
- Liquefaction
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