ENGR 351 Thermodynamics II
Thermodynamics II covers exergy, moist air properties, vapor and gas power cycles, and refrigeration cycles.
Offered
Fall
Student Learning Outcomes
- Define exergy which is the maximum useful work that could be obtained from the system at a given state in a specified environment
- Define the second law efficiency
- Develop the exergy balance relation
- Evaluate the performance of gas power cycles for which the working fluid remains a gas throughout the entire cycle
- Develop simplifying assumptions applicable to gas power cycles
- Solve problems based on the Otto, Diesel, Stirling, and Ericsson Cycles
- Solve problems based on the Brayton Cycle, The Brayton Cycle with regeneration, and the Brayton Cycle with intercooling, reheating, and regeneration
- Analyze Jet-Propulsion Cycles
- Analyze vapor power cycles in which the working fluid is alternately vaporized and condensed
- Investigate ways to modify the basic Rankine vapor power cycle to increase the cycle thermal efficiency
- Analyze the ideal and actual vapor-compression refrigeration cycle
- Understand the factors involved in selecting the right refrigerant for an application
- Develop the fundamental relations between commonly encountered thermodynamic properties and express the properties that cannot be measured directly in terms of easily measurable properties
- Develop rules for determining nonreacting gas mixtures properties from knowledge of mixture composition and the properties of the individual components
- Define the quantities used to describe the composition of a mixture, such as mass fraction, mole fraction, and volume fraction
- Differentiate between dry air and atmospheric air
- Define and calculate the specific and relative humidity
- Calculate the dew point
- Define the parameters used in combustion analysis
- Develop the general relations for compressible flows
- Be able to identify the concepts of stagnation state, speed of sound, Mach number forr a compressible fluid