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Postgraduate Course: Thermodynamics for Energy Systems (MSc) (PGEE10030)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Engineering CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis course will consider advanced applications of thermodynamics in a range of engineering contexts. Topics covered will include advanced power cycles, psychrometry and an introduction to combustion.
Course description - Introduction to exergy
- Thermodynamic cycles for power plants and other engineering applications
- Ideal gas mixtures and psychrometry (simple gas/vapour mixture models)
- Combustion and gasification
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Students MUST NOT also be taking Thermodynamics (Mechanical) 4 (MECE10012)
Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Have a deeper understanding of the significance of the First and Second Laws and be able to apply them to relevant engineering systems (e.g. power plants and refrigeration systems);
  2. Understand the division of energy into available and unavailable energy, that degradation of energy occurs in energy processes, and carry out second law analyses of simple plant;
  3. Carry out calculations on power cycles, heat pumps and combined heat and power plants and recognise the good, the bad and the impossible in energy systems;
Reading List
No book required, but texts that can be referred to include:
Borgnakke and Sonntag, Fundamentals of Thermodynamics, Wiley.

Cengel and Boles, Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach, McGraw Hill.

Moran & Shapiro, Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, Wiley.
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsThermodynamics,energy systems
Contacts
Course organiserDr Mathieu Lucquiaud
Tel: (0131 6)50 7444
Email: M.Lucquiaud@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMr James Foster
Tel: (0131 6)51 3562
Email: James.Foster@ed.ac.uk
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