E 115 - ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS (4 units)

Fundamental laws of thermodynamics for simple substances; application to flow processes and to nonreacting mixtures; statistical thermodynamics of ideal gases and crystalline solids; chemical and materials thermodynamics; multiphase and multicomonent equilibria in reacting systems; electrochemistry. (Fall) Wirth

Description:

• Fundamental laws of thermodynamics; application
  to flow processes and to nonreacting mixtures; chemical and materials
  thermodynamics; nonideal solutions, phase diagrams and chemical
  equilibria.

Prerequisite knowledge and/or skills:

• Mathematics including understanding of partial
  derivatives and ability to solve algebraic equations mathematically
• Lower-division thermodynamics (at the level of
  freshman chemistry and sophomore physics courses)

Objectives:

• Present to the students the basis of the first
  and second laws of thermodynamics
• Explain the terminology of thermodynamics: system,
  properties, processes, reversibility, equilibrium, phases, components
• Apply the first and second laws to open and closed
  systems
• Introduce heat engines and their application to
  power cycles
• Treat solution thermodynamics and application to
  phase diagrams
• Cover chemical thermodynamics

Outcomes: Students must be able to:

• Understand and analyze processes: isothermal, isobaric,
  isentropic, cyclic
• Analyze steam power cycles for electricity production
• Use equations of state for nonideal gases and solids
• Apply equilibrium criteria to isolated systems
  and to chemical/materials systems
• Relate thermodynamic properties via partial derivatives,
  Maxwell's relations
• Be able to interpret phase diagrams of binary systems
  from free energy vs composition curves
• Solve for equilibrium compositions in homogeneous
  and heterogeneous chemical reactions

Topics Covered:

1. Concepts and definitions
2. Equations of state and the steam tables
3. Applications of the First and Second laws to processes
   in closed systems
4. Heat engines, power cycles and the thermodynamics
   of open systems
5. Free energy and the criterion of equilibrium
6. Phase equilibrium in one - component systems
7. Thermodynamic relations
8. Mixtures and solutions
9. Binary phase equilibrium and phase diagrams
10. Chemical thermodynamics
11. Electrochemistry and aqueous equilibria
12. Biothermodynamics