Aims

Specialised training in thermal cycles, with the view to provide students knowledge and skills required for the conception of thermodynamics systems, as well as the quantitative evaluation and critic of these

Main themes

Vapour power plants
Gas turbines
Combined cycles
Cogeneration
Refrigerating plant

Content and teaching methods

Characterization of energetic performances of cyclic heat power plants.
Exergy concept and its application to cyclic transformations.
Exergetic approach of combustion.
Energetic and exergetic analysis of vapour power plant.
Energetic and exergetic analysis of gas turbine plant.
Energetic and exergetic analysis of combined cycles.
Cogeneration : energetic and exergetic approach.
Energetic and exergetic analysis of simple refrigeration plant.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Prerequisite courses :
MECA 2855, Thermodynamics and energetics.

Assessment :
Open-book exam and discussion about the personal work.

Texts :
- R.W.Haywood, Analysis of engineering cycles, Pergamon press, 1991.
- J.H.Horlock, Combined power plants, Pergamon press, 1992.
- M.J. Moran, H.N. Shapiro : Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, John Wiley,1995.
- J.H. Horlock, Advanced gas turbine cycles, Pergamon (Elsevier Science), 2003.

Courses :
Oral presentation using PowerPoint slides

Tutorials involve a personal work implying an initiation to cycle calculation (using usual programs) as well as two or three visits of power plants of different types.

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