Course detail

Thermodynamic Engineering

FSI-KS1Acad. year: 2015/2016

The course “Engineering Thermodynamics” is part of theoretical basis of process engineering. Students will gain basic knowledge necessary for resolving practical tasks connected to material and power evaluations of physico-chemical processes and designing mechanical-technological systems in chemical, manufacturing and power industry or waste processing technologies. This course introduces students within one semester with methods and procedures used to describe state behaviour of gases and liquids, determine physico-chemical properties of substances and their mixtures (density, viscosity, thermal conductivity, diffusivity, etc.) and determine thermodynamic state variables and their changes during various processes. Thermodynamic factors influencing physico-chemical processes and conditions of thermodynamic balance are analysed. The emphasis is put on consideration of real behaviour of gaseous and liquid systems.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Ladislav Bébar, CSc.

Department

Institute of Process Engineering (ÚPI)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The course’s aim is to familiarize the students with regularities during physico-chemical processes and learn them to perform mass and energy balances of these processes. The gained knowledge and skills have a great importance for a process engineer’s work.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of chemistry (stoichiometric calculations, concentration expressions,).
Basic knowledge of thermodynamics (state behavior of ideal gas and liquid, the first and the second thermodynamic laws, main thermodynamic quantities).
Basic knowledge of mathematics (integration, derivation and simple differential equations solution).

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Exercises are focused on practical topics presented in lectures.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Course-unit credit requirements: active participation of students in exercises and working out a term project solving one of the main problems of the course. The examination consists of both written and oral parts. At the examination students demonstrate acquired knowledge.

Course curriculum

1.Object of physical chemistry, principles of balancing the systems.
2.Expressing of concentration.
3.State behaviour of real gases, state behaviour of liquids.
4.Introduction into thermodynamics. Poissons equations, Gas expansion.
5.Thermodynamic functions (enthalpy, internal energy, entropy, Gibbs- and Helmholtz functions).
6.Fugacity and activity.
7.Clausius-Clapeyron equation, heat of evaporation, vapour pressure, conditions for gas-liquid equilibrium.
8.Distillation and rectification, behaviour of non-ideal systems.
9.Termochemie, heat of reaction.
10.Reaction equilibrium conditions, factors affecting the thermodynamic equilibrium. Calculation of equilibrium composition for systems with chemical reaction.
11.Kinetic factors affecting the results of reactions.
12.Basic types of reactors and the basic balance equations for reactors.
13.Transport features of gas and liquid mixtures.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The course’s aim is to introduce the students to basic thermodynamic regularities of physico-chemical processes and learn them to perform basic mass and energy balance of these processes.
The course introduces students to wide range of physico-chemical substance properties important for balance, hydraulic, thermal and diffusion calculations of process equipment. The gained knowledge will enable the students to understand the influence of working conditions on the results of physico-chemical processes.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The course is taught through lectures in a classroom with suitable presentation equipment. The students have access to support texts in electronic form. The exercises are carried on in given classroom and follow the topics of the lectures. The attendance at exercises is checked.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Green, D., W., Perry, R., H., CHEMICAL ENGINEERS´ HANDBOOK, 8 th editon, 2007, Mc Graw-Hill International Editions, Chemical Engineering Series, , pp 2336, New York, ISBN 978-0-07-142294-9 (EN)
Chopey, N., P., Handbook of chemical engineering calculation. third edition, 2004, McGraw-Hill International Editions, Chemical Engineering Series, 2004, New York, 640 s., ISBN 0-07-136262-2 (EN)
Jürgen Gmehling, Bärbel Kolbe, Michael Kleiber and Jürgen Rarey,2012, Chemical Thermodynamics for Process Simulation, 760 p., Wiley/VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, ISBN 978-3-27-31277-1 (DE)
Sandler, S., I., Chemical, biochemical, and engineering thermodynamics, 4th edition, 2006, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, 945 p, ISBN 978-0-471-66174-0 (EN)
Shavit A., Gutfinger Ch., Thermodynamics: From Concepts to Applications, 2nd edition, 2009, 649 p, CRC PRES Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, ISBN:978-1-4200-7368-3 (EN)

Type of course unit

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Ladislav Bébar, CSc.

Syllabus

1. The object of thermodynamics, the basic thermodynamic laws
2. Expressing of concentration, conversion of values in different units (Anglo-Saxon and SI)
3. State behaviour of real gases and liquids, deviations from ideal behaviour of gases and liquids.
4. Introduction into thermodynamics. Adiabatic processes, Poisson’s equations, gas expansion and compression, isoenthalpic process and Joule-Thomson coefficient.
5. Thermodynamic functions (enthalpy, specific heat, internal energy, entropy, Gibbs and Helmholtz functions). The influence of temperature and pressure on the thermodynamic properties of real gases and liquids.
6. Heat of reaction. Hess’s and Kirchhoff’s laws.
7. Heat of combustion
8. Conditions of thermodynamic equilibrium. The equilibrium constant of chemical reactions.
9. Factors affecting the thermodynamic equilibrium. Degree of conversion.
10. Clausius-Clapeyron’s equation and its application for heat of evaporation and vapor pressure determination.
11. Ideal and real liquid solutions. Raoult’s and Raoult-Dalton’s laws and their application. Henry’s law and its application for absorption.
12. The principles of distillation and rectification. The impact of non-ideal liquid systems on behaviour of real systems during distillation and rectification.
13.Transport properties of gases and liquids and their mixtures.

Computer-assisted exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Vladimír Brummer, Ph.D.

Syllabus

The excercises are pracitised mostly with computers exploitation.
Typical problems based on the previous lectures are solved, especially:
- Stochiometric calculations.
- Concentration conversion.
- Mass and energetic balance of.steady and unsteady systems with mass and heat accumulation
- Application of gas state equations for real gases.
- Thermodynamic properties of real systems calculation.
(enthalpy, specific heat, entropy, Gibbs energy.
- Gas compression/expansion and energy consumption/getting.
- Pfysical properties calculation (Density of real gases and liquids calculations,
Viscosity and heat conductivity of real gases and liquids).
- Vapour pressure a heat of evaporation calculations.
- Fugacity and activity of real gas or liquids systems calculations.
- Gas-Liquid phase equilibrium.
- Calculation of yields of chemical reaction carried out in various types of reactors.

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

Thermodynamic Engineering

Type of course unit