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2023　Engineering Thermodynamics J

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Academic unit or major
Undergraduate major in Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering
Instructor(s)
Egashira Ryuichi  Murakami Yoichi  Habaki Hiroaki 
Class Format
Lecture    (Face-to-face)
Media-enhanced courses
Day/Period(Room No.)
Mon3-4(I1-255(I123))  Thr3-4(I1-255(I123))  
Group
J
Course number
TSE.A204
Credits
2
Academic year
2023
Offered quarter
1Q
Syllabus updated
2023/4/3
Lecture notes updated
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Language used
Japanese
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Course description and aims

Thermodynamics is the foundation of modern natural science and has been set as a basic subject in a wide range of science and engineering fields. Thermodynamics is used in a wide range of fields including cosmology and life sciences. It science-and-technology fields, thermodynamics is applied to, for example, evaluation of global-warming countermeasure technologies and determination of their effectiveness, judgments on perpetual motion machines (technologies that cannot be realized in principle), predictions and descriptions of a wide range of chemical reaction phenomena including redox reactions in batteries and various reforming reactions. The purpose of this lecture is for students to acquire an understanding of thermodynamics as well as the ability to utilize it, and thus to form a scientific foundation as a scientist and engineer.

Student learning outcomes

After studying this subject, the students should be able to understand the basic laws of thermodynamics as well as the concepts and equations derived from them, apply them to various specific problems (environmental and energy problems, etc.). The students also should gain the ability to quantitatively evaluate such problems, select optimal conditions, and improve them.

Keywords

Fundamental law of science, Judgement of the direction of change, Energy conversion efficiency, Entropy, Free energy, Exergy, Heat engine, Refregirator, Chemcical reaction, Equilibrium

Competencies that will be developed

✔ Specialist skills ✔ Intercultural skills Communication skills ✔ Critical thinking skills Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

Download and print the lecture materials posted on T2SCHOLA prior to the lecture, and use them to prepare. Bring it on the day of class and take notes on the board. You can also take notes using a pen tablet. In addition to the exercises specified in the course schedule below, small exercises will be held during each class, so please bring a scientific calculator to each class.

Course schedule/Required learning

  Course schedule Required learning
Class 1 Outline of the course, [1] Introduction (significance of studying thermodynamics, overall picture), [2] Basis of thermodynamics (systems, state quantities, dimensions and units, energy, heat, equilibrium, ideal gas, temperature). After understanding the lecture contents, the students should be able to apply and to utilize them to specific problems.
Class 2 Continued from [2]. [3] First Law of Thermodynamics (expression by words, background of emergence of the First Law, heat and work, the First Law in a closed system, boundary work, path, cycle, characteristics of properties, the First Law in an open system, enthalpy, specific heat and specific-heat ratio, the First Law of ideal gases).
Class 3 Continued from [3]. [4] Second Law of Thermodynamics (efficiency of a cycle, coefficient of performance, the expressions of the Second Law by words, reversible vs. irreversible processes, Carnot cycle, Carnot's theorem, thermodynamic temperature scale and theoretical maximum efficiency, a property called entropy, characteristics of entropy, entropy of ideal gases).
Class 4 Continued from [4]. [5] Efficient utilization of energy and exergy (maximum work, exergy, second law efficiency, general expression of exergy for closed system, second-law-based analysis of heat transfer, free energy, insight into entropy, examples of utilization of thermodynamics)
Class 5 Continuation of [5].
Class 6 [6] Phase equillibria of pure substances (determination of a state, phase diagram of pure substance, general thermodynamics relation, Clapeyron-Clausius equation, Joule-Thomson effect)
Class 7 Exercise 1 and the explanations on the solutions.
Class 8 [7] Phase Equilibrium of Multicomponent System (1) (chemical potential, chemical potential of ideal gas, Gibbs' phase rule)
Class 9 [8] Phase Equilibrium of Multicomponent System (2) (vapor-liquid equilibrium in binary system, solid-liquid equilibrium in binary system, liquid-liquid equilibrium in binary system)
Class 10 [9] Thermodynamics of Solution (ideal solution, real solution and partial molar quantity, Gibbs-Duhem equation, activity and activity coefficient)
Class 11 [10] Chemical Equilibrium (chemical reaction and extent of reaction, equilibrium constant and free energy, pressure equilibrium constant and concentration equilibrium constant, dissociation equilibrium, standard Gibbs energy of formation, temperature dependency of equilibrium constant)
Class 12 [11] Rate and Mechanism of Chemical Reaction (reaction rate, rate equation for first-order reation, rate equation for second-order reaction, reaction mechanism and rate equation, mechanism and rate of enzymatic catalytic reaction, unimolecular reaction in gas phase, temperature dependency of reaction rate)
Class 13 [12] Adsorption on Solid Surface and Heterogeneous Reaction (adsorption, chemical equilibrium in heterogeneous system, kinetics in heterogeneous decomposition reaction)
Class 14 Exercise 2 and the explanations on the solutions.

Out-of-Class Study Time (Preparation and Review)

- Download and print the lecture materials posted on T2SCHOLA prior to the lecture, and use them to prepare (approx. 100 min).
- Review after each lecture and practice session (approx. 100 min).

Textbook(s)

Below are recommended. Students do not need to buy them.
- Y. A. Cengel and M. A. Boles, Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach, McGraw-Hill (Edition in SI units)
- Smith, Ness, Abbott, Swihart, “Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics” 9th Edition, McGraw-Hill (2021)
- YUNUS A. ÇENGEL, MICHAEL A. BOLES, MEHMET KANOĞLU, "Thermodynamics an engineering approach" 9th Edition, McGraw-Hill.(2019)
- Peter Atkins, Julio de Paula, "Physical Chemistry", 10th Edition, W. H. Freeman and Company. (2014)

Reference books, course materials, etc.

The course materials prepared for each lecture based on the above reference books can be found on T2SCHOLA for this subject. Students should watch the university's e-mail address to check e-mail from T2SCHOLA.

Assessment criteria and methods

The course scores are evaluated by exercise problems etc. (approx. 40%) and a final exam (approx. 60%). Be sure to bring your own scientific calculator for the final exam (note: smartphones cannot be used during the exam).

Related courses

  • TSE.A303 ： Unit operations
  • TSE.A343 ： Foundations of Energy Systems Design
  • TSE.A351 ： Transdisciplinary Engineering Experiment A

Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)

Non required

Contact information (e-mail and phone)    Notice : Please replace from "[at]" to "@"(half-width character).

Ryuichi Egashira: regashir[at]tse.ens.titech.ac.jp; Ex 3584
Yoichi Murakami: murakami.y.af[at]m.titech.ac.jp; Ex 3836
Hiroaki Habaki：hhabaki[at]tse.ens.titech.ac.jp; Ex 2496

Office hours

Prof. Egashira: Students can come to the office anytime (he may be busy depending on a timing, though). It is preferable for stuedens to make a prior appointment.

Prof. Murakami: Please first send him e-mail to make an appointment. Students can make short questions on the phone (Ex 3836, 03-5734-3836).

Other

The course schedule above may be subject to change.

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