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: 2013/14  Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1) 
  
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Learn enabled:  Yes | 
Quota:  None | 
 
Web Timetable  | 
	
Web Timetable | 
	| Class Delivery Information | 
	Tutorials Thur 2.00pm - 5.00pm | 
 
 
| Course Start Date | 
13/01/2014 | 
 
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) | 
 
 Total Hours:
100
(
 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: hannah.chalmers@ed.ac.uk | 
Course secretary | Miss Lucy Davie 
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687 
Email: Lucy.Davie@ed.ac.uk | 
   
 
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