Announcement
A GOOD news to everyone. You may bring 2 sheets of notes during your BTE 2521 Final Exam.
Please note that Property Tables and Conversion Factors Chart will be provided.
Good Luck!
Course Description
This course is a basic building block for an engineer, particularly a biochemical engineer.
Through this course, students will:
- Develop a physical awareness of the science of thermodynamics.
- Present the fundamental laws that govern thermodynamics, and their applications.
- Develop practical methodologies for solving engineering thermodynamics problems, with particular focus to chemical and biological engineering.
- Illustrate the extremely wide variety of thermodynamics related applications in everyday life and in modern technology.
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Lecture Notes
Chapter 1 (Slides.pdf)
Introduction, basic concepts of thermodynamics, thermodynamics and energy, closed and open systems, state and equilibrium, processes and cycles, temperature, pressure and its measurement.
Chapter 2 (Slides.ppt)
Forms of energy and energy transfer, mechanical
forms of work, First law of thermodynamics, energy conversion efficiencies,
energy use and its implication to environment.
Chapter 3 (Slides.ppt)
Properties of pure
substances, phase change processes, property diagrams and tables, the ideal-gas
equation of state, compressibility factor and equation of states.
Chapter 4 (Slides.ppt)
Energy balance for closed
systems, moving boundary work, specific heats, internal energy, enthalpy, mass
and energy analysis of control volumes,flow work, the steady flow processes.
Chapter 5 (Slides.ppt)
Energy balance for control volumes, mass
and energy analysis of control volumes,flow work, the steady flow processes.
Chapter 6 (Slides.ppt)
The second law of
thermodynamics, thermal-energy reservoirs, heat engines, refrigerators and heat
pumps, reversible and irreversible processes, the Carnot Cycle and principles,
the thermodynamic temperature scale.
Chapter 7 (Slides.ppt)
Entropy, the increase of
entropy principle, Entropy change of pure substances, entropy diagrams, the
T-ds relations, evaluation of entropy change, reversible steady flow work,
entropy balance.
Chapter 8
Exergy, exergy change of a system, The decrease of exergy principle and exergy destruction.
Chapter 11
Refrigeration Cycles:
Refrigeration and heat pumps, the reversed Carnot Cycle, heat pump systems. Chapter 13 (Slides.ppt)
Gas mixture composition: mass and mole fraction,
P-v-T behaviour of ideal and real gases, properties of gas mixture.
Chapter 14
Gas-vapour mixtures and air-conditioning: specific and relative humidity of air, dew point temperature, adiabatic-saturation and wet-bulb temperatures, the psychrometric charts.
Chapter 15 (Slides.ppt)
Thermodynamics
of reaction systems. First law and second law analysis of reacting systems.
Chapter 16
Chemical and phase
equilibrium, equation of reaction equilibrium, calculation of equilibrium
composition, equilibrium between two phases of a pure substance, equilibrium of
multi component, multiphase systems.
