ΜΕ11 | Advanced Thermodynamics

Postgraduate Study Program | Power Systems

Review of macroscopic Τhermodynamics and thermodynamic system parameters.

First & Second Law and their applications. The closed thermodynamic system according to Karatheodori and Poincare, the general formulation of the conservation of energy in a control volume.

The entropy function, entropy in closed systems & control volumes, entropy production in cycles, the entropy production and the second axiom.

Exergy (Availability), Second Law efficiency, Exergy Transfer, Exergy in Closed Systems, Exergy in Control Volumes.

Exergy analysis in processes, devices and thermodynamic cycles, examples.

Equations of state.Thermodynamic property relations. Thermodynamic potentials.

Phase equilibrium.

The third law and the specific heat theories.

Homogeneous mixtures and fugacity relationships. Solutions.

Multiphase – multicomponent systems.

Thermochemistry and chemical reaction dynamics. Chemical availability. Elements of Statistical Thermodynamics. Elements of Irreversible thermodynamics.