İsmail Tosun - Professor of Chemical Engineering

CHME 204 Thermodynamics I

At the conclusion of this course, you should be able to:

Visualize different thermodynamic properties and distinguish between them.
Differentiate reversible processes from irreversible ones.
Carry out an energy balance on a given process.
Calculate the amount of heat transferred and work done to carry out a given process.
Estimate thermodynamic properties either by using equations of state or from charts and tables.
Write the entropy balance for a given process and calculate the change in entropy.
Determine whether a given process is thermodynamically feasible or not.
Calculate the thermal efficiency for a heat engine cycle.
Calculate the coefficient of performance and determine the heating and cooling load requirements.

Lecture notes and homework assignments are available on METU-Online.

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