Second Law and corollaries, Temperature Scale and Isentropic efficiency. Steam plant cycle and plant performance improvement. Gas turbine plant cycle and plant performance improvement. Air/moisture mixtures and Psychrometry. Refrigeration cycle and air-conditioning. (1-D) Heat conduction in plane wall and radial systems, Thermal network. Convection and convective heat transfer coefficient. Heat loss from pipes and critical insulation. Extended surfaces and fin analysis. Heat exchanger analysis; Log Mean Temperature and effectiveness. Thermal radiation; Blackbody and Graybody behaviour. Shape factor; Radiation thermal resistance and thermal network. -- Course Website
Prerequisites: 308800 (v.1)<br/> Thermodynamics 236<br/> <br/> or any previous version
