Thermodynamics 3
J Price
4 points * 39 lecture hours, 13 laboratory hours * Second semester * Caulfield * Prerequisites: MEE4361
Radiation: radiation properties, grey and real surfaces, view factor. Refrigeration plant and heat pumps: reversed Carnot and vapour compression cycles, use of heat exchange and multistage compression, performance of components of vapour compression plant, matching of system components and prediction of plant performance. Thermodynamic relations: Maxwell relations, Clapeyron equation and the saturation pressure-temperature relationship, ideal and perfect gas approximations to the real fluid. Use of ideal gas tables. Use of computer to develop thermodynamic property data. Combustion: first and second law analysis of reacting gas mixtures, dissociation, combustion problems in IC engines. Air conditioning plant: air-vapour mixtures, psychrometry, relative and specific humidity, dew point and adiabatic saturation temperature, enthalpy of moist air, psychrometric chart, analysis of air conditioning plant and cooling towers.
Assessment
Examinations (3 hours): 70% * Laboratory work, a 1-hour test, tutorial: 30%
Prescribed texts
Holman J P Heat transfer McGraw-Hill, 1989
Van Wylen G J and Sonntag R E Fundamentals of classical thermodynamics SI edn, 3rd edn, Wiley, 1985