Advanced thermodynamics for engineers

"Although the basic theories of thermodynamics are adequately covered by a number of existing texts, there is little literature that addresses more advanced topics. In this comprehensive work the author redresses this balance, drawing on his twenty-five years of experience of teaching thermodynamics at undergraduate and postgraduate level, to produce a definitive text to cover thoroughly, advanced syllabuses. The book introduces the basic concepts which apply over the whole range of new technologies, considering: a new approach to cycles, enabling their irreversibility to be taken into account; a detailed study of combustion to show how the chemical energy in a fuel is converted into thermal energy and emissions; an analysis of fuel cells to give an understanding of the direct conversion of chemical energy to electrical power; a detailed study of property relationships to enable more sophisticated analyses to be made of both high and low temperature plant and irreversible thermodynamics, whose principles might hold a key to new ways of efficiently covering energy to power (e.g. solar energy, fuel cells). Worked examples are included in most of the chapters, followed by exercises with solutions. By developing thermodynamics from an explicitly equilibrium perspective, showing how all systems attempt to reach a state of equilibrium, and the effects of these systems when they cannot, the result is an unparalleled insight into the more advanced considerations when converting any form of energy into power, that will prove invaluable to students and professional engineers of all disciplines"--OCLC.

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Front Cover; Advanced Thermodynamics for Engineers; Copyright; Contents; Preface -- First Edition; Preface -- Second Edition; Structure of the Book; Notation; CHAPTER 1 -- INTRODUCTION AND REVISION; 1.1 THERMODYNAMICS; 1.2 DEFINITIONS; 1.3 THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM AND THE ZEROTH LAW; 1.4 TEMPERATURE SCALES; 1.5 INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SYSTEMS AND SURROUNDINGS; 1.6 CONCLUDING REMARKS; 1.7 PROBLEMS; CHAPTER 2 -- THE SECOND LAW AND EQUILIBRIUM; 2.1 THERMAL EFFICIENCY; 2.2 HEAT ENGINE; 2.3 SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS; 2.4 THE CONCEPT OF THE HEAT ENGINE: DERIVED BY ANALOGY WITH A HYDRAULIC DEVICE (TABLE 2.1).

2.5 the absolute temperature scale2.6 entropy; 2.7 representation of heat engines; 2.8 reversibility and irreversibility (first corollary of second law); 2.9 equilibrium; 2.10 helmholtz energy (helmholtz function); 2.11 gibbs energy; 2.12 gibbs energy and phases; 2.13 examples of different forms of equilibrium met in thermodynamics; 2.14 concluding remarks; 2.15 problems; chapter 3 -- engine cycles and their efficiencies; 3.1 heat engines; 3.2 air-standard cycles; 3.3 general comments on efficiencies; 3.4 reversed heat engines; 3.5 concluding remarks; 3.6 problems.

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