This course covers the following topics:
- Chapter 1: Single-phase power cycles, explaining definitions and types of cycles where the working fluid returns to its initial state. Understanding these cycles is crucial for studying energy production or consumption machines.
- Chapter 2: Two-phase power cycles, focusing on phase changes and cycles like the Rankine cycle and Hirn cycle. It also discusses steam and nuclear power plants.
- Chapter 3: Exergy and energetic analysis of thermodynamic systems, a method that uses the conservation of mass and conservation of energy principles together with the second law of thermodynamics for the design and analysis of thermal systems. Another term frequently used to identify exergy analysis is
availability analysis.
- Chapter 4: Combustion thermodynamics, covering mixture properties, stoichiometric combustion, heat of formation, adiabatic flame temperature, chemical kinetics, combustion models, spontaneous ignition, controlled ignition, and critical heat flux for ignition.
- Course creator: djamal fites