411-204 Thermodynamics and Reactor Engineering

Credit Points

HECS Band

Coordinator

Prerequisites

610-141 and 610-142 Chemistry and 100 level Mathematics.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

Thermodynamics: Review of the First Law and the Second Law of Thermodynamics, definition of terms associated with these laws, primary thermodynamic functions (P, V, T, U and S) and the Maxwell relations, auxiliary thermodynamic functions (H, G and A) P-V-T diagrams of pure substances, ideal gas and departure from ideality, equations of state. Calculations of thermodynamic properties and thermodynamic charts, application of thermodynamics to flow processes, vapour and gas power cycles, compressors and turbines, refrigeration and gas liquefaction. Isentropic expansion in nozzles and nozzle efficiency.

Reactors: Basic concepts, ideal reactors, interpreting batch reactor data - no volume change, batch reactor data - complex reactions, batch reactor data - variable volume and differential method. Ideal reactor performance - batch reactor, ideal reactor performance - mixed flow reactor, ideal reactor - plug flow reactor, ideal reactor - performance comparison. Multiple reactors - mixed and plug flow reactors of identical size, multiple reactors - reactors of varying sizes, recycle plug flow reactor. Temperature effects - non-adiabatic operation, temperature effects - adiabatic operation, temperature ñ stability.

Assessment

One examination not exceeding three hours.