Thermodynamics for Rotating Equipment (from the ground up)

Contents:

• CHAPTER 1. - INTRODUCTION AND KEY DEFINITIONS
  • Relevant areas
  • System Definition
  • System Study approaches
    • closed system
    • controlled volume
  • Property, State and Process
  • Extensive and Intensive Properties
  • Phase and Pure Substance
  • Equilibrium
  • Three Measurable Properties \(P\), \(v\) and \(T\)
    • Pressure (\(P\))
    • Specific Volume (\(v\))
    • Temperature (\(T\))
• CHAPTER 2. - FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
  • Mass Balance Principle
  • Energy Balance Principle
  • First Law Analysis for Closed Systems
    • Energy Balance for Closed Systems
    • Concept of Boundary Work
    • First Law Equation (Boundary Work Form)
    • Isochoric (Constant-Volume) Process
    • Isobaric (Constant-Pressure) Process
    • Isothermal (Constant-Temperature) Process (Ideal Gas)
    • Polytropic Process
    • Isentropic Process
  • First Law Analysis of Controlled Volume System
    • Mass & Energy Balance for Controlled Volumes
    • Concept of Flow Work
    • First Law Equation (Enthalpy Form)
    • Nozzles and Diffusers
    • Compressors and Turbines
    • Throttling Valves
    • Mixing Chambers
    • Heat Exchanger
• CHAPTER 3. - IDEAL GAS AND SPECIFIC HEATS
  • Ideal Gas
  • Specific Heats (\(c_p\) and \(c_v\))
    • Specific Heat at constant volume (\(c_v\))
    • Specific Heat at constant pressure (\(c_p\))
    • Specific Heat for Ideal Gas
  • Perfect Gas
• CHAPTER 4. - SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
  • Cyclic Devices and their efficiencies
  • Second Law of Thermodynamics
    • The Kelvin Planck Statement
    • The Clausius Statement
  • Reversibile and Irreversibile Processes
  • Carnot cycle and Carnot Principles
  • The Thermodynamic Temperature Scale (Kelvin Scale)
  • Efficiencies of Carnot Devices
• CHAPTER 5. - ENTROPY
  • Clausius Inequality
  • Entropy Definition
  • The principle of entropy increase
  • Tds Relations
  • Entropy Change of Liquids and Solids
  • Entropy Change of Ideal Gas
  • Isentropic Processes of Perfect Gas
  • Work Done in Reversible Steady State Flows
  • Bernoulli equation
  • Reversible is Ideal
  • T-s and h-s entropy diagrams
• CHAPTER 6. - COMPRESSORS
  • Actual Work of Compression
  • Ideal Work of Compression and Types of Compression Efficiencies
    • Isothermal Head
    • Isentropic Head
    • Polytropic Head
• CHAPTER 7. - TURBINES

Index

• Index