ABSTRACT

This textbook comprehensively covers the fundamentals and advanced concepts of thermodynamics in a single volume.

It provides a detailed discussion of advanced concepts that include energy efficiency, energy sustainability, energy security, organic Rankine cycle, combined cycle power plants, combined cycle power plant integrated with organic Rankine cycle and absorption refrigeration system, integrated coal gasification combined cycle power plants, energy conservation in domestic refrigerators, and next-generation low-global warming potential refrigerants. Pedagogical features include solved problems and unsolved exercises interspersed throughout the text for better understanding.

This textbook is primarily written for senior undergraduate students in the fields of mechanical, automobile, chemical, civil, and aerospace engineering for courses on engineering thermodynamics/thermodynamics and for graduate students in thermal engineering and energy engineering for courses on advanced thermodynamics. It is accompanied by teaching resources, including a solutions manual for instructors.

FEATURES

  • Provides design and experimental problems for better understanding
  • Comprehensively discusses power cycles and refrigeration cycles and their advancements
  • Explores the design of energy-efficient buildings to reduce energy consumption

Property tables, charts, and multiple-choice questions comprise appendices of the book and are available at https://www.routledge.com/9780367646288.

chapter 1|17 pages

Introduction and Basic Concepts

chapter 2|11 pages

Temperature: Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics

chapter 3|40 pages

Energy and the First Law of Thermodynamics

chapter 4|24 pages

Properties of Pure Substances

chapter 5|19 pages

First Law Analysis of Control Volumes

chapter 6|35 pages

Second Law of Thermodynamics

chapter 7|33 pages

Entropy

chapter 8|28 pages

Properties of Gases and Gas Mixtures

chapter 9|19 pages

Concept of Available Energy (Exergy)

chapter 10|54 pages

Vapor and Advanced Power Cycles

chapter 11|52 pages

Gas Power Cycles

chapter 12|41 pages

Refrigeration Cycles

chapter 13|18 pages

Thermodynamic Relations

chapter 14|23 pages

Psychrometry

chapter 16|17 pages

Irreversible Thermodynamics