The students know
• general physical principles of energy conversion processes and their application in gas turbine plants, hot gas and combustion engines.
They know about
• the physical behavior of steam and technical refrigerants and their use in steam power plants, heat pumps and cooling units

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 state of ideal gases
  • Irreversible events, 2nd law, entropy, exergy and anergy
  • cycles
  • Ideal gas applications: gas turbine plants, internal combustion engines
  • behavior of pure fluids, equations of state and diagrams
  • behavior of the system water-steam; Application on steam power plants
  • behavior of technical refrigerants; Application on heat pumps and cooling units

Cerbe, Wilhelms: Technische Thermodynamik; Hanser
H. Herwig, C. H. Kautz: Technische Thermodynamik; Pearson
K. Langeheinecke (Hrsg), Thermodynamik für Ingenieure, Vieweg 2004

Integrated course (ILV)

General examination