This course develops thermodynamic analysis of gas, vapor, refrigeration, and air-conditioning cycles, including property relationships, ideal gas mixtures, psychrometrics, and combustion with excess air.

Syllabus

Thermodynamics: Course overview, Review of thermodynamics fundamentals (26 of 51).
Thermodynamics: Review of fundamentals, variable specific heats, isentropic efficiency (27 of 51).
Thermodynamics: Review of thermodynamic cycles, Gas power cycles, Otto Cycle (28 of 51).
Thermodynamics: Otto cycle, Diesel cycle (29 of 51).
Thermodynamics: Diesel cycle (30 of 51).
Thermodynamics: Stirling and Ericsson cycles, Ideal and non-ideal simple Brayton cycle (31 of 51).
Thermodynamics : Brayton cycle with regeneration, Brayton cycle with intercooling (32 of 51).
Thermodynamics: Brayton cycle with intercooling and reheating, Ideal simple Rankine cycle (33 of 51).
Thermodynamics : Ideal and non-ideal Rankine cycle, Rankine cycle with reheating (34 of 51).
Thermodynamics : Rankine cycle with reheating, Feedwater heaters (35 of 51).
Thermodynamics: Rankine cycle with open feedwater heater, Closed feedwater heater (36 of 51).
Thermodynamics: Closed feedwater heaters, Vapor-compression refrigeration cycle (37 of 51).
Thermodynamics: Non-ideal vapor-compression cycle, absorption refrigeration cycle (38 of 51).
Thermodynamics: Review of midterm exam, Maxwell relations (39 of 51).
Thermodynamics: Clapeyron equation, Various thermodynamic property relationships (40 of 51).
Thermodynamics: Other thermodynamic property relationships, Ideal gases (41 of 51).
Thermodynamics: Overview of ideal gas mixtures, Amagat's and Dalton's laws (42 of 51).
Thermodynamics: Properties of ideal gas mixtures, Dry air/water vapor mixtures (43 of 51).
Thermodynamics: Humidity, Enthalpy of air/water vapor mixtures, Dew point (44 of 51).
Thermodynamics: Dew point, Adiabatic saturation, Psychrometer (45 of 51).
Thermodynamics: Psychrometric chart, Air conditioning processes (46 of 51).
Thermodynamics: Midterm review, Heating with humidification, Dehumidification by cooling (47 of 51).
Thermodynamics: Dehumidification by cooling, Evaporative cooling, Cooling towers (48 of 51).
Thermodynamics: Wet cooling towers, Stoichiometric combustion (49 of 51).
Thermodynamics: Combustion with excess air, dew point of combustion products (50 of 51).
Thermodynamics: Combustion with excess air review, Course review (51 of 51).
Thermodynamics: Interview with Professor David Miller.