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Grao en Enxeñaría Mecánica
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The following blocks or chapters develop the contents established in the verification memory, which are: Fundamentals
Energy and conservation of energy
Entropy
Exergy
Problems applied to engineering
1. Introduction to thermodynamics
Thermodynamics and energy
Systems and control volumes
Properties
States
Processes
Energy and enthalpy
Specific heat and thermal capacity
Phases
Ideal gases
Temperature and Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
Density
Pressure
2. Work, energy and the 1st Law of Thermodynamics (conservation of energy) Energy
Energy transfer by heat
Energy transfer by work
The First Law of Thermodynamics for closed systems, energy balance
3. Propiedades de una sustancia pura Introduction
Phase-change processes of pure substances
Property diagrams
Property tables
Properties of incompressible substances
Properties of ideal gases
Reference states
4. Conservation of energy and 1st law of Thermodynamics Introduction
Conservation of mass in control volumes
Conservation of energy in control volumes
Examples
5. 2nd Law of Thermodynamics and introduction to thermodynamic cycles Introduction
Thermal energy reservoirs
Thermodynamic cyclic devices: heat engines, refrigerators and heat pumps
Kelvin-Planck and Clausius statements for the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Maximum thermal efficiency of thermodynamic cyclic devices
6. Entropy AClausius inequality
Entropy
Entropy tables
Entropy diagrams
Tds relations
Entropy change of thermal energy reservoirs
Entropy change of incompressible substances
Entropy change of ideal gases
Entropy generation
Isentropic processes
Entropy balance for closed systems and control volumes
Entropy of the universe
Isentropic efficiency of pumps, compressors, turbines and nozzles
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