Aims |
Contribution of the course to the reference learning outcomes
B1.1 ;1.5 ;2.1 ;4.2
b. Course-specific learning outcomes
Through fundamentals concepts taught in class plus practices, the student should be able to:
1. Perform an energy balance and evaluate the losses together with the energy deterioration across a thermodynamic transformation involving heat and mechanical work exchanges;
2. To compute and propose a simple model of an engine thermal cycle involving a perfect gas or a vapor, e.g. Rankine cycles, gas turbine cycles, internal combustion engine cycles, or cogeneration;
3. To compute and propose a simple model of a refrigeration cycle, e.g. compressions machines, heat pumps or absorption;
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Content |
1. The two principles of thermodynamics and the related variables (internal energy, enthalpy and entropy), the work and heat concepts, the fundamental equations of shaft work, opened/closed transformations, T,s and h,s diagrams;
2. Perfect gas, properties and mixture of perfect gas, isentropic and polytropic transformations, models of compression/expansion;
3. Vaporization, triple point, critical point, vapor phase diagram, heat of vaporization, saturation conditions, overheat, properties of vapors;
4. Internal combustion engine, vapor installations, cogeneration;
5. Carnot cycle, compression cycles, absorption cycles, heat pumps;
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Bibliography |
Syllabus « THERMODYNAMIQUE », BIR1311, J. Martin et P. Wauters, ed. 2012
« Fundamentals of engineering thermodynamics », M. J. Moran and H. N. Shapiro
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