Thermodynamics for Engineering - EGR 248 at Northern Virginia Community College
https://courses.vccs.edu/colleges/nova/courses/EGR248-ThermodynamicsforEngineering
Effective: 2024-05-01
Course Description
Presents fundamental concepts of classical thermodynamics. Includes the first and second law of thermodynamics, thermodynamic properties of pure substances, processes involving energy transfer as work and heat, reversibility and irreversibility, closed and open systems, and thermodynamic cycles.
Lecture 3 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
3 credits
The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.
General Course Purpose
The purpose of this course is to prepare students for further study in thermodynamics and heat transfer.
Course Prerequisites/Corequisites
Prerequisites: CHM 111 and MTH 264 or department approval.
Course Objectives
- Quantitative Literacy
- Apply the basic concepts of systems, properties, states, and temperature
- Explain the concepts of heat, work, internal energy, and enthalpy
- Apply the first law of thermodynamics
- Determine the thermodynamic state and property of an ideal gas
- Perform energy analysis of open and closed systems
- Apply the second law of thermodynamics and understand the concept of entropy ? examples include reservoirs, second law postulates, Clausius inequality, and closed system reversible and irreversible processes
- Evaluate consequences of the second law, including control volume analysis, isentropic processes, and entropy changes for ideal gasses and pure substances
- Apply the laws of thermodynamics to analyze vapor power cycles
- Apply the laws of thermodynamics to analyze gas powered cycles
- Critical Thinking
- Explain the concepts of heat, work, internal energy, and enthalpy.
- Apply the first law of thermodynamics
- Perform energy analysis of open and closed systems
- Apply the second law of thermodynamics and understand the concept of entropy ? examples include reservoirs, second law postulates, Clausius inequality, and closed system reversible and irreversible processes
- Evaluate consequences of the second law, including control volume analysis, isentropic processes, and entropy changes for ideal gasses and pure substances
- Apply the laws of thermodynamics to analyze vapor power cycles
- Apply the laws of thermodynamics to analyze gas powered cycles
- Scientific Literacy
- Apply the laws of thermodynamics to analyze vapor power cycles
- Apply the laws of thermodynamics to analyze gas powered cycles
Major Topics to be Included
- Thermodynamics properties
- Apply the basic concepts of systems, properties, states, and temperature
- Determine the thermodynamic state and property of an ideal gas
- First law of thermodynamics (Open and closed systems); Enthalpy; thermodynamic cycles; Conservation of mass
- Explain the concepts of heat, work, internal energy, and enthalpy.
- Apply the first law of thermodynamics
- Perform energy analysis of open and closed systems
- Second law of thermodynamics; Entropy; Carnot cycle
- Apply the second law of thermodynamics and understand the concept of entropy ? examples include reservoirs, second law postulates, Clausius inequality, and closed system reversible and irreversible processes
- Evaluate consequences of the second law, including control volume analysis, isentropic processes, and entropy changes for ideal gasses and pure substances
- Rankine cycle
- Apply the laws of thermodynamics to analyze vapor power cycles
- Evaluate consequences of the second law, including control volume analysis, isentropic processes, and entropy changes for ideal gasses and pure substances
- Cold-air standard analysis
- Apply the laws of thermodynamics to analyze gas powered cycles