STEM / applied
Thermodynamics · Undergraduate · Engineering
Topics
Power and refrigeration cycles
- Rankine cycle: ideal and practical steam power
- Brayton cycle: gas turbine power plants
- Otto and Diesel cycles for internal combustion
- Combined cycles and cogeneration concepts
- Vapor-compression refrigeration cycle
- Absorption refrigeration (survey)
- Psychrometrics: moist air properties and charts
- HVAC processes on psychrometric charts
- Combustion stoichiometry and adiabatic flame temp
- Environmental impact: emissions and efficiency trade-offs
Applied thermodynamics in engineering practice
- Property estimation when tables are unavailable
- Software: EES, REFPROP, or similar property tools
- Energy audits and Sankey diagram interpretation
- Renewable integration effects on thermodynamic cycles
- FE thermodynamics topic mapping and drills
- Safety: pressure vessels and relief sizing awareness
- Lab demos: heat engine models and calorimetry
- Design problems: cycle modification for efficiency
- Real-fluid departures from ideal-gas behavior
- Case studies: power plant, engine, and HVAC systems
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