The students know

• the general physical principles of energy conversion processes and their application in gas turbine plants, hot gas and internal combustion engines.
• about the physical behaviour of steam and technical refrigerants and their application in steam power plants, heat pumps and chillers.

B2.00000.10.010 - Engineering Mathematics 1
B2.00000.20.010 - Engineering Mathematics 2
B2.00000.20.030 - Physics 2

• State variables, thermodynamic systems
• 1st Law, heat, concept of work, internal energy and enthalpy
• Changes in the state of ideal gases
• Irreversible processes, 2nd law, entropy, exergy and anergy
• Thermodynamic cycle
• Efficiencies of processes and their significance for the evaluation of the energy efficiency of a process
• Applications of the ideal gas: gas turbine plants, internal combustion engines
• Behavior of pure fluids, equations of state and diagrams
• Behavior of the water-water vapor system; application on steam power plants
• Behavior of technical refrigerants; application on heat pumps and chillers

Cerbe, Wilhelms: Technical Thermodynamics; Hanser
H. Herwig, C. H. Kautz: Technical Thermodynamics; Pearson
K. Langeheinecke (Ed.), Thermodynamics for Engineers, Vieweg 2004

Integrated course (ILV)

General examination