COURSE OUTLINE

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Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering
Semester: 1
Subject & Code: Thermodynamics (SKF 1013) Academic Session: 2006/2007
Total Lecture Hours: 3 hours x 14 Weeks

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Synopsis : Thermodynamics is an important basic engineering subject where concepts such as

systems, boundaries, mass, heat, work and energy are introduced. These concepts
were then related using the 1st and 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. In this subject
properties of common substances such as water, air and general working fluids are
introduced using property tables and basic state equations. The application of these
concepts in basic refrigeration and power cycles Such basic concepts are vital
because they form the fundamentals for future chemical engineering subjects.

Learning Outcomes : By the end of the course, students should be able to:
i) State and explain the 1st and 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.
ii) Apply the 1st and 2nd Law of Thermodynamics to calculate heat, work and
energy for both closed and open systems. In other words capable of deriving
and carry out energy and entropy balance on various systems
iii) analyse and calculate the performance of power and refrigeration cycles

Generic Skills : 1) Lifelong Learning (LL1 – LL3)

Addressed 2) Problem Solving (CR1 - CR4)
3) Communication Skills (CS1 – CS4)
4) Teamworking (TW1 – TW5)
5) Self-esteem (SE1 – SE4)

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Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering
Semester: 1
Subject & Code: Thermodynamics (SKF 1013) Academic Session: 2006/2007
Total Lecture Hours: 3 hours x 14 Weeks

Week Topic Learning Outcomes

1 Introduction to Thermodynamics It is expected that students will be able to:

• Definition of Thermodynamics • explain the importance of
• Definition a Thermodynamics system Thermodynamics
• Illustrative examples of application of • convert unit
thermodynamics • Measure temperature and pressure
• Unit for mass, Length, Time, Force
• Temperature and Pressure

2 Properties of Pure Substance It is expected that students will be able to:

• Introduce the concept of a pure substance • draw the P-V, T-V, and P-T diagrams
• Illustrate the P-V, T-V, and P-T property • determining thermodynamic properties
diagrams and P-V-T surfaces of pure of pure substances from tables of
substances property data
• Demonstrate the procedures for determining • Apply the ideal-gas equation of state
thermodynamic properties of pure and the compressibility factor in the
substances from tables of property data. solution of typical problems.
• Describe the hypothetical substance "ideal
gas" and the ideal-gas equation of state.
• Apply the ideal-gas equation of state in the
solution of typical problems.
• Introduce the compressibility factor, which
accounts for the deviation of real gases from
ideal-gas behavior, and to illustrate its use.

3&4 Work and Heat It is expected that students will be able to:
• Define the meaning of work • Calculate the amount of work in a given
• Examine the various forms of work, with process
particular emphasis on the moving boundary • identify different type of work
work or PdV work commonly encountered in
reciprocating devices such as automotive
engines and compressors.
• Define the meaning of heat transfer
• Heat Transfer mode

5&6 First Law of Thermodynamics for closed It is expected that students will be able to:
system • Apply First Law of Thermodynamics
• Calculate the internal energy and
• Identify the types of energy that may be
enthalpy change
transferred to or from a thermodynamic
system
• Determine that energy in the form of heat or
work may cross the boundaries of a closed
(control mass) system
• Internal Energ and Enthalpy
• The Concept of heat capacity, Cv and Cp.
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Department & Faculty: Department of Chemical Engineering
Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering
Subject & Code: Thermodynamics (SKF 1013)
Total Lecture Hours: 3 hours x 14 Weeks
Module Topic
7&8 First Law of Thermodynamics for open system
• Conservation of mass
• First Law of Thermodynamics for open
system
• Steady state process
• Example of steady state process, i.e. Heat
Exchanger, Nozzles, Throttle, turbines,
pump, compressor, power plant and
refrigeration system
• The transient process
9 The Second Law of Thermodynamics
• Heat Engines and refrigerators
• The Second Law of Thermodynamics
• Reversible process
• The Carnot cycle
10 & 11 Entropy
• The Clausius inequality
• The definition of Entropy
• Entropy of a pure substance
• The thermodynamics property relation
• Entropy change and generation
• Entropy change for solid, liquid and ideal
gas
12 & 13 Second Law analysis for open system
• Second law analysis for open system
• Principle of the increase of entropy
• Entropy generation
• Efficiency
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Academic Session: 2006/2007
Learning Outcomes
It is expected that students will be able to:
• Apply the First Law of Thermodynamics
for open system such in Heat
Exchanger, Nozzles, Throttle, turbines,
pump, compressor, power plant and
refrigeration system
• Apply the First Law of Thermodynamics
for simple transient process
It is expected that students will be able to:
• describe the heat engines and
refrigeration system
• Describe the Second Law of
Thermodynamics
• Describe The Carnot cycle
It is expected that students will be able to:
• Discuss the Clausius inequality, which
forms the basis for the definition of
entropy.
• Calculate the entropy changes that
take place during processes for pure
substances, incompressible
substances, and ideal gases.
It is expected that students will be able to:
• Apply the second law to processes
• Explain the increase of entropy
principle
• Develop the isentropic, or adiabatic,
efficiencies of various steady-flow
engineering devices and apply the
definitions to turbines, compressors,
and nozzles.
• Apply the entropy balance to various
systems.
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Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering
Semester: 1
Subject & Code: Thermodynamics (SKF 1013) Academic Session: 2006/2007
Total Lecture Hours: 3 hours x 14 Weeks

14 Power and Refrigeration Systems
• Power systems
• The Rankine cycle
• Effect of pressure and temperature on the
Rankine cycle
• Deviation of the actual cycle from ideal cycle
• The Vapor-Compression Refrigeration
• Deviation of the actual Vapor-Compression
Refrigeration cycle from the ideal cycle
It is expected that students will be able to:
• Analyze vapor power cycles in which
the working fluid is alternately
vaporized and condensed.
• Calculate the performance of Power
cycle, refrigerators and heat pumps.
• Analyze the ideal vapor-compression
refrigeration cycle

15-17 Revision Week and Final Examination

Teaching Methodology : Lectures and Tutorials

References : 1) Wylen G.V. , Sonntag R.,and Borgnakke C., Fundamentals of Thermodynamics, 6th
ed., John Wiley, New York, 2003
2) Yunus A. Çengel , Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach, 4th ed, Mc Graw
Hill, 2002

Assessment : TEST 1 : 20% Week 7

TEST 2 : 20% Week 11
Final Exams : 50% Week 15 or 16
Quiz, Tutorials, etc. : 10% Weeks 7 &15