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Thermodynamics I

Module name (EN):
Name of module in study programme. It should be precise and clear.
Thermodynamics I
Degree programme:
Study Programme with validity of corresponding study regulations containing this module.
Mechanical and Process Engineering, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2004
Module code: MAB-3.2
Hours per semester week / Teaching method:
The count of hours per week is a combination of lecture (V for German Vorlesung), exercise (U for Übung), practice (P) oder project (PA). For example a course of the form 2V+2U has 2 hours of lecture and 2 hours of exercise per week.
2V+1U (3 hours per week)
ECTS credits:
European Credit Transfer System. Points for successful completion of a course. Each ECTS point represents a workload of 30 hours.
3
Semester: 3
Mandatory course: yes
Language of instruction:
German
Assessment:
Fifty-minute written exam

[updated 12.09.2004]
Applicability / Curricular relevance:
All study programs (with year of the version of study regulations) containing the course.

MAB-3.2 Mechanical and Process Engineering, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2004 , semester 3, mandatory course
Workload:
Workload of student for successfully completing the course. Each ECTS credit represents 30 working hours. These are the combined effort of face-to-face time, post-processing the subject of the lecture, exercises and preparation for the exam.

The total workload is distributed on the semester (01.04.-30.09. during the summer term, 01.10.-31.03. during the winter term).
45 class hours (= 33.75 clock hours) over a 15-week period.
The total student study time is 90 hours (equivalent to 3 ECTS credits).
There are therefore 56.25 hours available for class preparation and follow-up work and exam preparation.
Recommended prerequisites (modules):
None.
Recommended as prerequisite for:
Module coordinator:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Horst Altgeld
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Kimmerle
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Horst Altgeld
Prof. Dr. Michael Reimann


[updated 15.08.2012]
Learning outcomes:
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- explain the difference between state variables and process variables
- construct and compute energy balance schemes for ideal processes
- distinguish between changes of state in real and ideal systems
- use and apply p-V, T-S and H-S diagrams and steam tables
- explain and compute the Carnot process

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Module content:
- Introduction and basic terminology
        - Thermodynamic systems and states
                - Pressure, temperature (zeroth law of thermodynamics), specific volume, density, molar mass
                - Internal state, external state, total state
- Equations of state and changes of state
        - The equation of state of an ideal gas
        - Specific heat capacities of ideal gases, liquids and solids
- The first law of thermodynamics: Introduction and definition
        - The first law applied to a closed system
                - Exchange of heat and work
                        - pV-work, work consumed by friction or the dissipation of energy, external work
        - The first law applied to a steady-state flow process
                - Introduction of the concepts of usable work and power
                - Derivation of the first law for a steady-state flow process
                - Definition and calculation of usable work and power
        - Quasi-static changes of state in homogeneous systems
                - Isobaric, isothermal, isochoric, adiabatic, isentropic and polytropic changes of state
- The second law of thermodynamics: Introduction and definition
        - Entropy change in ideal gases, liquids and solids
        - Change in entropy for a steady-state flow process
        - Changes of state in T-S and H-S diagrams
- Cyclical processes, efficiency and figures of merit
        - Basic cyclical processes, clockwise and anticlockwise traversal, thermal efficiency, figure of merit
        - Idealized cyclical processes with ideal gases
                - Carnot process, exchange of heat and work, efficiency and figure of merit


[updated 12.09.2004]
Teaching methods/Media:
Lecture notes, problems and exercises, collection of important thermodynamic formulae

[updated 12.09.2004]
Recommended or required reading:
Elsner, Cerbe&Hoffmann, Schmidt&Stephan&Mayinger, Hahne, Lüdecke&Lüdecke

[updated 12.09.2004]
 
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