2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

ENGR 351 Thermodynamics II

Thermodynamics II covers exergy, moist air properties, vapor and gas power cycles, and refrigeration cycles.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENGR 350

Offered

Fall

Student Learning Outcomes

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