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The course GEC241: Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics covers essential concepts such as the laws of thermodynamics, properties of pure substances, and energy transfer methods. Students will learn to apply the first and second laws of thermodynamics to both closed and open systems, evaluate thermodynamic cycles, and calculate efficiencies for various applications. Key topics include state diagrams, ideal gas behavior, and energy and mass balance in unsteady-flow processes.

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GET241 Course Content

The course GEC241: Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics covers essential concepts such as the laws of thermodynamics, properties of pure substances, and energy transfer methods. Students will learn to apply the first and second laws of thermodynamics to both closed and open systems, evaluate thermodynamic cycles, and calculate efficiencies for various applications. Key topics include state diagrams, ideal gas behavior, and energy and mass balance in unsteady-flow processes.

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GEC241: Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics (3 Units C: LH 45)

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, the students should be able to:
1. describe basic concepts of thermodynamics, i.e quantitative relations of Zeroth, first, second
and third laws;
2. define and explain system (surrounding, closed and open system), control volume and control
mass, extensive and intensive properties;
3. calculate absolute and gage pressure, and absolute temperature, calculate changes in kinetic,
potential, enthalpy and internal energy;
4. evaluate the properties of pure substances i.e. evaluate the state of the pure substances such as
compressed liquid, saturated liquid-vapour mixture and superheated vapour using property
diagrams and tables; arrange the ideal and real gas equations of state,
5. formulate the first law of thermodynamics for a closed system i.e. organize the change in
energy in the closed systems via heat and work transfer;
6. distinguish heat transfer by conduction, convection and radiation, and calculate the amount of
heat energy transferred;
7. calculate the changes in moving boundary work, spring work, electrical work and shaft work
in closed systems;
8. apply the first law of thermodynamics for closed systems and construct conservation of mass
and energy equations;
9. formulate the first law of thermodynamics to the open systems i.e. describe steady-flow open
system, apply the first law of thermodynamics to the nozzles, diffusers, turbines,
compressors, throttling valves, mixing chambers, heat exchangers, pipe and duct flow;
10. construct energy and mass balance for unsteady-flow processes;
11. evaluate thermodynamic applications using second law of thermodynamics;
12. calculate thermal efficiency and coefficient of performance for heat engine, refrigerators and
heat pumps; and
13. restate perpetual-motion machines, reversible and irreversible processes.
Course Contents
Basic concepts, definitions and laws (quantitative relations of Zeroth, first, second and third laws of
thermodynamics). Properties of pure substances: the two-property rule (P-v-T behaviour of pure
substances and perfect gases); state diagrams. The principle of corresponding state; compressibility
relations; reduced pressure; reduced volume; temperature; pseudo-critical constants. The ideal gas:
specific heat, polytropic processes. Ideal gas cycles; Carnot; thermodynamic cycles, turbines, steam
and gas, refrigeration. The first law of thermodynamics – heat and work, applications to open and
closed systems. The steady flow energy equation (Bernoulli’s equation) and application. Second law
of thermodynamics, heat cycles and efficiencies.

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