Life: The Science of Biology

By: Michael J. Moran; Howard N. Shapiro; Daisie D. Boettner; Margaret B. Bailey

Publisher: Wiley
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Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics sets the standard for teaching students how to be effective problem solvers. Integrated throughout this product are real-world applications that emphasize the relevance of thermodynamic principles to some of the most critical problems and issues of today. These include a wealth of coverage on topics related to energy and the environment, biomedical/bioengineering, and emerging technologies.

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1119391431, 1119391768, 1119391539, 1119571502, 9781119391432, 9781119391760, 9781119391531, 9781119571506, 1119391385, 1119721431, 9781119391388, 9781119721437

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1 Getting Started: Introductory Concepts and Definitions
Exercises and Problems
Exercises: Things Engineers Think About
Checking Understanding
Problems: Developing Engineering Skills
Design and Open Ended Problems
Chapter Summary and Study Guide
Key Engineering Concepts
Key Equations
Study Resources
Chapter Study Resources
Additional Study Resources
Reading
1.1 Using Thermodynamics
1.2 Defining Systems
1.3 Describing Systems and Their Behavior
1.4 Measuring Mass, Length, Time, and Force
1.5 Specific Volume
1.6 Pressure
1.7 Temperature
1.8 Engineering Design and Analysis
1.9 Methodology for Solving Thermodynamics Problems
Chapter 2 Energy and the First Law of Thermodynamics
Exercises and Problems
Exercises: Things Engineers Think About
Checking Understanding
Problems: Developing Engineering Skills
Design and Open Ended Problems
Chapter Summary and Study Guide
Key Engineering Concepts
Key Equations
Study Resources
Chapter Study Resources
Additional Study Resources
Reading
2.1 Reviewing Mechanical Concepts of Energy
2.2 Broadening Our Understanding of Work
2.3 Broadening Our Understanding of Energy
2.4 Energy Transfer by Heat
2.5 Energy Accounting: Energy Balance for Closed Systems
2.6 Energy Analysis of Cycles
2.7 Energy Storage
Chapter 3 Evaluating Properties
Exercises and Problems
Exercises: Things Engineers Think About
Checking Understanding
Problems: Developing Engineering Skills
Design and Open Ended Problems
Chapter Summary and Study Guide
Key Engineering Concepts
Key Equations
Study Resources
Chapter Study Resources
Additional Study Resources
Reading
3.1 Getting Started
3.2 p–υ–T Relation
3.3 Studying Phase Change
3.4 Retrieving Thermodynamic Properties
3.5 Evaluating Pressure, Specific Volume, and Temperature
3.6 Evaluating Specific Internal Energy and Enthalpy
3.7 Evaluating Properties Using Computer Software
3.8 Applying the Energy Balance Using Property Tables and Software
3.9 Introducing Specific Heats cυ and cp
3.10 Evaluating Properties of Liquids and Solids
3.11 Generalized Compressibility Chart
3.12 Introducing the Ideal Gas Model
3.13 Internal Energy, Enthalpy, and Specific Heats of Ideal Gases
3.14 Applying the Energy Balance Using Ideal Gas Tables, Constant Specific Heats, and Software
3.15 Polytropic Process Relations
Chapter 4 Control Volume Analysis Using Energy
Exercises and Problems
Exercises: Things Engineers Think About
Checking Understanding
Problems: Developing Engineering Skills
Design and Open Ended Problems
Chapter Summary and Study Guide
Key Engineering Concepts
Key Equations
Study Resources
Chapter Study Resources
Additional Study Resources
Reading
4.1 Conservation of Mass for a Control Volume
4.2 Forms of the Mass Rate Balance
4.3 Applications of the Mass Rate Balance
4.4 Conservation of Energy for a Control Volume
4.5 Analyzing Control Volumes at Steady State
4.6 Nozzles and Diffusers
4.7 Turbines
4.8 Compressors and Pumps
4.9 Heat Exchangers
4.10 Throttling Devices
4.11 System Integration
4.12 Transient Analysis
Chapter 5 The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Exercises and Problems
Exercises: Things Engineers Think About
Checking Understanding
Problems: Developing Engineering Skills
Design and Open Ended Problems
Chapter Summary and Study Guide
Key Engineering Concepts
Key Equations
Study Resources
Chapter Study Resources
Additional Study Resources
Reading
5.1 Introducing the Second Law
5.2 Statements of the Second Law
5.3 Irreversible and Reversible Processes
5.4 Interpreting the Kelvin–Planck Statement
5.5 Applying the Second Law to Thermodynamic Cycles
5.6 Second Law Aspects of Power Cycles Interacting with Two Reservoirs
5.7 Second Law Aspects of Refrigeration and Heat Pump Cycles Interacting with Two Reservoirs
5.8 The Kelvin and International Temperature Scales
5.9 Maximum Performance Measures for Cycles Operating between Two Reservoirs
5.10 Carnot Cycle
5.11 Clausius Inequality
Chapter 6 Using Entropy
Exercises and Problems
Exercises: Things Engineers Think About
Checking Understanding
Problems: Developing Engineering Skills
Design and Open Ended Problems
Chapter Summary and Study Guide
Key Engineering Concepts
Key Equations
Study Resources
Chapter Study Resources
Additional Study Resources
Reading
6.1 Entropy–A System Property
6.2 Retrieving Entropy Data
6.3 Introducing the T dS Equations
6.4 Entropy Change of an Incompressible Substance
6.5 Entropy Change of an Ideal Gas
6.6 Entropy Change in Internally Reversible Processes of Closed Systems
6.7 Entropy Balance for Closed Systems
6.8 Directionality of Processes
6.9 Entropy Rate Balance for Control Volumes
6.10 Rate Balances for Control Volumes at Steady State
6.11 Isentropic Processes
6.12 Isentropic Efficiencies of Turbines, Nozzles, Compressors, and Pumps
6.13 Heat Transfer and Work in Internally Reversible, Steady‐State Flow Processes
Chapter 7 Exergy Analysis
Exercises and Problems
Exercises: Things Engineers Think About
Checking Understanding
Problems: Developing Engineering Skills
Design and Open Ended Problems
Chapter Summary and Study Guide
Key Engineering Concepts
Key Equations
Study Resources
Chapter Study Resources
Additional Study Resources
Reading
7.1 Introducing Exergy
7.2 Conceptualizing Exergy
7.3 Exergy of a System
7.4 Closed System Exergy Balance
7.5 Exergy Rate Balance for Control Volumes at Steady State
7.6 Exergetic (Second Law) Efficiency
7.7 Thermoeconomics
Chapter 8 Vapor Power Systems
Exercises and Problems
Exercises: Things Engineers Think About
Checking Understanding
Problems: Developing Engineering Skills
Design and Open Ended Problems
Chapter Summary and Study Guide
Key Engineering Concepts
Key Equations
Study Resources
Chapter Study Resources
Additional Study Resources
Reading
8.1 Introducing Vapor Power Plants
8.2 The Rankine Cycle
8.3 Improving Performance—Superheat, Reheat, and Supercritical
8.4 Improving Performance—Regenerative Vapor Power Cycle
8.5 Other Vapor Power Cycle Aspects
8.6 Case Study: Exergy Accounting of a Vapor Power Plant
Chapter 9 Gas Power Systems
Exercises and Problems
Exercises: Things Engineers Think About
Checking Understanding
Problems: Developing Engineering Skills
Design and Open Ended Problems
Chapter Summary and Study Guide
Key Engineering Concepts
Key Equations
Study Resources
Chapter Study Resources
Additional Study Resources
Reading
9.1 Introducing Engine Terminology
9.2 Air-Standard Otto Cycle
9.3 Air-Standard Diesel Cycle
9.4 Air-Standard Dual Cycle
9.5 Modeling Gas Turbine Power Plants
9.6 Air-Standard Brayton Cycle
9.7 Regenerative Gas Turbines
9.8 Regenerative Gas Turbines with Reheat and Intercooling
9.9 Gas Turbine–Based Combined Cycles
9.10 Integrated Gasification Combined-Cycle Power Plants
9.11 Gas Turbines for Aircraft Propulsion
9.12 Compressible Flow Preliminaries
9.13 Analyzing One-Dimensional Steady Flow in Nozzles and Diffusers
9.14 Flow in Nozzles and Diffusers of Ideal Gases with Constant Specific Heats
Chapter 10 Refrigeration and Heat Pump Systems
Exercises and Problems
Exercises: Things Engineers Think About
Checking Understanding
Problems: Developing Engineering Skills
Design and Open Ended Problems
Chapter Summary and Study Guide
Key Engineering Concepts
Key Equations
Study Resources
Chapter Study Resources
Additional Study Resources
Reading
10.1 Vapor Refrigeration Systems
10.2 Analyzing Vapor-Compression Refrigeration Systems
10.3 Selecting Refrigerants
10.4 Other Vapor-Compression Applications
10.5 Absorption Refrigeration
10.6 Heat Pump Systems
10.7 Gas Refrigeration Systems
Chapter 11 Thermodynamic Relations
Exercises and Problems
Exercises: Things Engineers Think About
Checking Understanding
Problems: Developing Engineering Skills
Design and Open Ended Problems
Chapter Summary and Study Guide
Key Engineering Concepts
Key Equations
Study Resources
Chapter Study Resources
Additional Study Resources
Reading
11.1 Using Equations of State
11.2 Important Mathematical Relations
11.3 Developing Property Relations
11.4 Evaluating Changes in Entropy, Internal Energy, and Enthalpy
11.5 Other Thermodynamic Relations
11.6 Constructing Tables of Thermodynamic Properties
11.7 Generalized Charts for Enthalpy and Entropy
11.8 p–v–T Relations for Gas Mixtures
11.9 Analyzing Multicomponent Systems
Chapter 12 Ideal Gas Mixture and Psychrometric Applications
Exercises and Problems
Exercises: Things Engineers Think About
Checking Understanding
Problems: Developing Engineering Skills
Design and Open Ended Problems
Chapter Summary and Study Guide
Key Engineering Concepts
Key Equations
Study Resources
Chapter Study Resources
Additional Study Resources
Reading
12.1 Describing Mixture Composition
12.2 Relating p, V, and T for Ideal Gas Mixtures1
12.3 Evaluating U, H, S, and Specific Heats
12.4 Analyzing Systems Involving Mixtures
12.5 Introducing Psychrometric Principles
12.6 Psychrometers: Measuring the Wet-Bulb and Dry-Bulb Temperatures
12.7 Psychrometric Charts
12.8 Analyzing Air-Conditioning Processes
12.9 Cooling Towers
Chapter 13 Reacting Mixtures and Combustion
Exercises and Problems
Exercises: Things Engineers Think About
Checking Understanding
Problems: Developing Engineering Skills
Design and Open Ended Problems
Chapter Summary and Study Guide
Key Engineering Concepts
Key Equations
Study Resources
Chapter Study Resources
Additional Study Resources
Reading
13.1 Introducing Combustion
13.2 Conservation of Energy—Reacting Systems
13.3 Determining the Adiabatic Flame Temperature
13.4 Fuel Cells
13.5 Absolute Entropy and the Third Law of Thermodynamics
13.6 Conceptualizing Chemical Exergy
13.7 Standard Chemical Exergy
13.8 Applying Total Exergy
Chapter 14 Chemical and Phase Equilibrium
Exercises and Problems
Exercises: Things Engineers Think About
Checking Understanding
Problems: Developing Engineering Skills
Design and Open Ended Problems
Chapter Summary and Study Guide
Key Engineering Concepts
Key Equations
Study Resources
Chapter Study Resources
Additional Study Resources
Reading
14.1 Introducing Equilibrium Criteria
14.2 Equation of Reaction Equilibrium
14.3 Calculating Equilibrium Compositions
14.4 Further Examples of the Use of the Equilibrium Constant
14.5 Equilibrium between Two Phases of a Pure Substance
14.6 Equilibrium of Multicomponent, Multiphase Systems
Index to Tables in SI Units
Index to Tables in English Units
Index to Figures and Charts
Symbols
How to Use This Book Effectively
Index
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