Undergraduate Course: Engineering Thermodynamics 2 (SCEE08006)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | School (School of Engineering) |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/teaching/ |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course provides a basic grounding in the principles and methods of Classical Thermodynamics. It concentrates on: understanding the thermodynamic laws in relation to familiar experience; phase change, ideal gas and flow processes; using sources of data like thermodynamic tables and charts; application of the basic principles to the operation of various engine cycles. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2014/15 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Class Delivery Information |
Tutorials Thur 2.00pm - 5.00pm |
| Course Start Date |
12/01/2015 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 20,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 9,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
68 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
80 %,
Coursework
10 %,
Practical Exam
10 %
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| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 1:30 | | | Resit Exam Diet (August) | | 1:30 | |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
On completion of the module, students should be able to:
1. understand abstract concepts in relation to familiar experience
2. transform familiar experience and simple engineering systems into conceptual models
3. apply the basic principles of thermodynamics into analysing conceptual models
4. to use basic mathematical tools in analysing conceptual models |
Assessment Information
Examination 80%
Laboratories 20% |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Lecture 1 - Introduction
Basic Concepts and Definitions of Thermodynamics
Lecture 2 - Pure substances 1
Phase Change Properties, Property Diagrams
Lecture 3 - Pure substances 2
Property Diagrams (continued) and Tables, Saturated Liquid -Vapour Mixture, The Ideal Gas Law
Lecture 4 - Energy, Energy Transfer, and General Energy Analysis
Heat transfer mechanisms
Lecture 5 - 1st Law of Thermodynamics: Closed Systems
Calculation of Heat and Work, Forms of the 1st Law
Lecture 6 - Specific Heats
Definitions, Specific Heats of Ideal Gases, Liquids and Solids
Lecture 7 - Mass and Energy Analysis of Control Volumes
Control volume, Steady-state steady Flow Processes, Mass flow rate
Lecture 8 - 1st Law of Thermodynamics: Open Systems 2
Steady Flow Engineering Devices, Introduction to Unsteady Flow Processes
Lecture 9 - 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
Introduction, Statements of the 2nd Law, The Carnot Cycle
Lecture 10 - Entropy: A Measure of Disorder
Entropy and 2nd Law, The Increase of Entropy Principle, Entropy Change
Lecture 11 - The property of entropy
Entropy Change (continued), Third Law of Thermodynamics, T-s diagram.
Lecture 12 - Entropy changes for various processes
Pure substances, Incompressible substances, Isentropic processes
Lecture 13 - Entropy & Work
Isentropic, Steady Flow through Turbines, Pumps, and Compressors
Lecture 14 - Gas Power Cycles: Carnot and Otto Cycles
Analysis of Power Cycles, Carnot and Otto Cycle
Lecture 15 - Gas Power Cycles: Diesel Cycle
Diesel and Dual Cycles
Lecture 16 - Gas Power Cycles: Brayton Cycle
Brayton Cycle - the ideal cycle for gas-turbine engines
Lecture 17 - Vapor and Combined Power Cycles
Carnot and Rankine vapor Cycles
Lecture 18 - Refrigeration Cycles
Reversed Carnot Cycle, Vapour-Compression Cycle
Lecture 19 - Systematic Approach to Problem Solving
Examples, Systematic Approach to Problem solving
Lectures 20 - Review Session
Note: Chem Eng students are to attend the first 10 lectures of this course followed by 10 lectures on Chemical Equilibrium and Phase Change covered by the U03916: Thermodynamics (Chemical) 2 course. |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Main text-book: Çengel and Boles: "Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach", 5th Edition , McGraw Hill (2006).
Additional text-book: Moran & Shapiro, ¿Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics¿, 5th Edition, Wiley (2006).
Several texts are available in the Robertson Engineering Library.
For practicals: The worksheets and several handouts on Plotting Graphs, Treatment of Experimental Error, Conclusion Writing and Technical Report Writing. |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Hannah Chalmers
Tel: (0131 6)50 5600
Email: |
Course secretary | Miss Lucy Davie
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687
Email: |
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