THERMODYNAMICS

General Info

• Course Title: Thermodynamics
• Course Code: NAOME1217
• Semester: 3rd
• Course Type: S.B.¹
• Weekly Teaching Hours: 4 (Lectures)
• Credits (ECTS): 4
• Offered to ERASMUS+ students: Yes
• Course Website: https://eclass.uniwa.gr/courses/NAFP111/
  http://ocp.teiath.gr/courses/NAFP_UNDER110
• Professors: G. Hatzikonstandis

Course Content / Syllabus

1. Fundamental Concepts and Definitions : Terminology, definition and scope, microscopic and macroscopic approaches. Engineering Thermodynamics: Definition, some practical applications of engineering thermodynamics. System (closed system) and Control Volume (open system). 2. Ideal and real gases. Differences between ideal and real gases, equation of state for ideal gases, real gases. Van der Waal’s equation of state, other equations of state. 3.The First Law of Thermodynamics. Basic concepts : system, state, equilibrium, process. Quasi –equilibrium processes. Equation of state. 4. Heat and Work: changing the state of a system. Zeroth law of thermodynamics. Work. The first law of thermodynamics and its corollaries: adiabatic, steady, throttling of a gas, quasi-static expansion of gas, transient filling of a tank. Enthalpy. Specific heats. Conservation of mass and energy in control volume form. Engineering cycles: properties of cycles, work and efficiency, general presentation of cycles, Carnot cycle, refrigerator and heat pump, Otto cycle, Diesel cycle, Joule cycle, Sabathe cycle. 5. The Second Law of Thermodynamics, Reversible processes, The second law of thermodynamics: statements and related concepts. Entropy changes in an ideal gas. Calculation of entropy change in basic processes. 6. Power cycles : Introduction, Practical Rankine Cycle, Reheat Cycle (continuation of Rankine cycle), Regenerative Cycle. Mollier and Ts-diagrams.

Course Outline