MECH6307 THERMAL & ENERGY PRINCIPLES: (For complete syllabus, course contents, lectures, assignments,... please use UTD elearning system, https://elearning.utdallas.edu)

Office Hours: Tue-Thu 6-7 pm or by appointment

Time-Place: Tue-Thu 7:00-8:15 pm , Room ECSS 2.306

Textbook: Michael J. Moran and Howard N. Shapiro, Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, 6th Edition John Wiley.

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Course Description and Lectures:

This course provides an extended treatment of the fundamentals of thermodynamics as related to energy conversion, storage, transmission and use. Industrial topics may include: conventional and sustainable power generation or efficiency in refrigeration, air-conditioning and heating applications. Further applications may include: studies of internal combustion engines, heat pump systems, and other energy conversion machines.

Lectures	Subject
Week 1	Review from Thermo I
Week 2,3	Introducing Exergy, Closed System Exergy Balance, Exergy Rate Balance for Control Volumes at Steady State, Exergetic (Second Law) Efficiency
Week 4,5	Modeling Vapor Power Systems, Rankine Cycle, Improving Performance (Superheat and Reheat), Improving Performance (Regenerative Vapor Power Cycle), Other Vapor Cycle Aspects, Exergy Accounting of a Vapor Power Plant.
Midterm-1, Thursday Feb. 16
Week 6,7,8	Gas Power System, Introducing Engine Terminology, Air-Standard Dual Cycle, Modeling Gas Turbine Power Plants, Air-Standard Brayton Cycle, Regenerative Gas Turbines, Regenerative Gas Turbines with Reheat and Inter-cooling, Gas Turbines for Aircraft Propulsion, Combined Gas Turbine(Vapor Power Cycle).
Week 9,10	Vapor Refrigeration Systems, Analyzing Vapor-Compression Refrigeration Systems, Cascade and Multistage Vapor-Compression Systems, Heat Pump Systems, Gas Refrigeration Systems
Week 11	Spring Break March 11-17
Midterm-2, Thursday Mar. 29
Week 12,13,14	Heating and Air Conditioning Systems, Describing Mixture Composition, Evaluating Internal Energy, Enthalpy, Entropy and Specific Heats, Analyzing Systems Involving Mixtures, Introducing Psychrometric Principles, Measuring the Wet-Bulb and Dry-Bulb Temperatures, Analyzing Air-Conditioning Processes, Cooling Towers
Week 15,16	Introducing Combustion, Conservation of Energy (Reacting Systems), Absolute Entropy and the Third Law of Thermodynamics
Final exam 5/12/2012, Saturday 7:00PM - 9:45PM