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Schaum's outline of thermodynamics for engineers / Merle C. Potter, Craig W. Somerton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Schaum's outline seriesPublication details: New York ; London : McGraw-Hill, c2006.Edition: 2nd edDescription: x, 406 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9780071463065:
  • 0071463062 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Thermodynamics for engineers [Cover title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 621.4021
Contents:
Concepts, definitions, and basic principles -- Thermodynamic systems and control volume -- Macroscopic dscription -- Properties and state of a system -- Thermodynamic equilibrium; processes -- Units -- Density, specific volume, specific weight -- Pressure -- Temperature -- Energy -- Properties of pure substances -- The P-v-T suface -- The liquid-vapor region -- Steam tables -- The ideal-gas equation of state -- Equations of state for a nonideal gas -- Work and heat -- Definition of work -- Quasiequilibrium work due to a moving boundary -- Nonequilibrium work -- Other work modes -- Heat -- The first law of thermodynamics -- The first law of thermodynamics applied to a cycle -- The first law applied to a process -- Enthalpy -- Latent heat -- Specific heats -- The first law applied to various processes -- General formulation for control volumes -- Applications of the energy equation -- The second law of thermodynamics -- Heat engines, heat pumps, and refrigerations -- Statements of the second law of thermodynamics -- Reversibility -- The Carnot Engine -- Carnot efficiency -- Entropy -- Definition -- Entropy for an ideal gas wih constant specific heats -- Entropy for an ideal gas with variable specific heats -- Entropy for substances such as steam, solids, and liquids -- The inequality of Clausius -- Entropy change for an irreversible process -- The second law applied to a control volume -- Reversible work, irreversibility, and availability -- Basic concepts -- Reversible work and irreversibility -- Availability and exergy -- Second-law analysis of a cycle -- Gas power cycles -- Gas compressors -- The air-standard cycle -- The Carnot cycle -- The otto cycle -- The diesel cycle -- The dual cycle -- The Stirling and Ericsson cycles -- The Brayton cycle -- The regenerative gas-turbine cycle -- The intercooling, reheat, regenerative gas-turbine cycle -- The turbojet engine -- Vapor power cycles -- The Rankine cycle -- Rankine cycle efficiency -- The reheat cycle -- The regenerative cycle -- The supercritical rankine cycle -- Effect of losses on power cycle efficiency -- The combined Brayton-Rankine cycle -- Refrigeration cycles -- The vapor refrigeration cycle -- The multistage vapor refrigeration cycle -- The heat pump -- The absorption refrigeration cycle -- The gas refrigeration cycle -- Thermodynamic relations -- Three differential relationships -- The maxwell relations -- The Clapeyron equation -- Further consequences of the Maxwell relations -- Relationships involving specific heats -- The Joule-Thomson Coefficient -- Enthalapy, Internal-energy, and entropy changes of real gases -- Mixtures and solutions -- Ideal-gas law for mixtures -- Properties of a mixture of ideal gases -- Gas-vapor mixtures -- Adiabatic saturation and wet-bulb temperatures -- The Psychrometric Chart -- Air-conditioning processes -- Combustion -- Combustion equations -- Enthalpy of formation, enthalpy of combustion, and the first law -- Adiabatic flame temperature.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Carlow Campus Library General Lending 621.4021 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 73024

Previously published under title: Schaum's outline of theory and problems of thermodynamics for engineers. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.

Includes index.

Concepts, definitions, and basic principles -- Thermodynamic systems and control volume -- Macroscopic dscription -- Properties and state of a system -- Thermodynamic equilibrium; processes -- Units -- Density, specific volume, specific weight -- Pressure -- Temperature -- Energy -- Properties of pure substances -- The P-v-T suface -- The liquid-vapor region -- Steam tables -- The ideal-gas equation of state -- Equations of state for a nonideal gas -- Work and heat -- Definition of work -- Quasiequilibrium work due to a moving boundary -- Nonequilibrium work -- Other work modes -- Heat -- The first law of thermodynamics -- The first law of thermodynamics applied to a cycle -- The first law applied to a process -- Enthalpy -- Latent heat -- Specific heats -- The first law applied to various processes -- General formulation for control volumes -- Applications of the energy equation -- The second law of thermodynamics -- Heat engines, heat pumps, and refrigerations -- Statements of the second law of thermodynamics -- Reversibility -- The Carnot Engine -- Carnot efficiency -- Entropy -- Definition -- Entropy for an ideal gas wih constant specific heats -- Entropy for an ideal gas with variable specific heats -- Entropy for substances such as steam, solids, and liquids -- The inequality of Clausius -- Entropy change for an irreversible process -- The second law applied to a control volume -- Reversible work, irreversibility, and availability -- Basic concepts -- Reversible work and irreversibility -- Availability and exergy -- Second-law analysis of a cycle -- Gas power cycles -- Gas compressors -- The air-standard cycle -- The Carnot cycle -- The otto cycle -- The diesel cycle -- The dual cycle -- The Stirling and Ericsson cycles -- The Brayton cycle -- The regenerative gas-turbine cycle -- The intercooling, reheat, regenerative gas-turbine cycle -- The turbojet engine -- Vapor power cycles -- The Rankine cycle -- Rankine cycle efficiency -- The reheat cycle -- The regenerative cycle -- The supercritical rankine cycle -- Effect of losses on power cycle efficiency -- The combined Brayton-Rankine cycle -- Refrigeration cycles -- The vapor refrigeration cycle -- The multistage vapor refrigeration cycle -- The heat pump -- The absorption refrigeration cycle -- The gas refrigeration cycle -- Thermodynamic relations -- Three differential relationships -- The maxwell relations -- The Clapeyron equation -- Further consequences of the Maxwell relations -- Relationships involving specific heats -- The Joule-Thomson Coefficient -- Enthalapy, Internal-energy, and entropy changes of real gases -- Mixtures and solutions -- Ideal-gas law for mixtures -- Properties of a mixture of ideal gases -- Gas-vapor mixtures -- Adiabatic saturation and wet-bulb temperatures -- The Psychrometric Chart -- Air-conditioning processes -- Combustion -- Combustion equations -- Enthalpy of formation, enthalpy of combustion, and the first law -- Adiabatic flame temperature.

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