ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Higher Technical Engineering School
Call: First Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
The aim of the course is understanding and acquiring the knowledge related to the transformation of heat into work and vice versa, based on the approach of ideal and real behavior systems and property balances, and the evaluation of different thermodynamic properties of irreversible nature that allow deepening in the fields of Thermodynamics applied to Chemical Engineering. The course has a clear practical character and aimed at the calculation and design of power generation and cooling equipment, power cycles, etc., with a large application to practical cases related to different industrial processes. On the other hand, the bases of the thermodynamics of the solutions and the applications of the balance between phases, particularly the liquid-vapor operations will be treated. These contents are fundamental for different subjects of later courses in the Degree in Chemical Engineering.
It is intended that the student achieve a basic training for understanding the aspects of the application of thermodynamics, skill in calculations of thermodynamic nature, and at the same time that understand the complexity of the heat-work operations. On the other hand, the student must have acquired the basic knowledge in Physics (previous secourse), since this subject requires this knowledge in solving problems in the first lessons.
It is essential, from the beginning of the course, skills in the use of programmable calculators to develop calculations in complex problems and/or certain techniques (iterative calculations, for example). Likewise, the student has to use spreadsheets for calculations.
It is convenient to have certain knowledge for the search of bibliography in databases to improve the learning based on the explanations given in the class.
1. Basic concepts. Thermodynamic systems.Principles of thermodynamics.
2. Thermodynamic properties of pure substances. Surfaces P-V-T.Equation of State for ideal and non-ideal gases.Incompressible substances.
3. Energy analysis and volumes of control. Thermodynamics of flow processes.
4. Second principle of thermodynamics. Entropy.Exergy.
5. Gas and steam power cycles. Refrigeration and liquefaction systems.
6. Thermodynamics of mixtures. Chemical potential. Fugacity. Excess properties
7. Heterogenous systems. Phase equilibrium: líquid-vapor, líquid-líquid, solid-líguid. Aire-water interaction.
Basic:
WARK, K. y RICHARDS, D.E. Termodinámica. Madrid: McGraw-Hill, 2003. ISBN: 84-481-2829. Signature: A040 14 and on-line version
SMITH, J. M., VAN NESS, H. C., y ABBOTT, M. M. Introducción a la termodinámica en ingeniería química. México, Madrid: McGraw-Hill, 2007.ISBN: 9789701061473. Signature: A041 1
Complementary:
MORAN, M. J. y SHAPIRO, H. N. Fundamentos de termodinámica técnica. Barcelona, Reverté, 2005, ISBB: 978-84-291-4313-3. Signature: A040 13
ÇENGEL, Y. A. y BOLES, M. A. Termodinámica. Madrid, McGraw-Hill, 2015. ISBN: 978-607-15-1281-9. Signature: A041 4
SEGURA, J. Termodinámica Técnica, J.Barcelona, Reverté, 1993. ISBN: 84-291-4352-1. Signature: A042 12
Also, additional material will be provided by the professors
The skills included in this subject in agreement with the memory of the grade studies are:
Specific skills:
CI.1.1 Knowledge about applied thermodynamics. Basic principles and applications to solve problems associated to chemical engineering processes.
General skills:
CG.3. Knowledge basic and technological concepts in the learning of new methods and theories to contribute versatility and adaptation to new situations.
CG.4. Skill to solve problems with initiative to take suitable decisions, creativity, critical thinking and communicate the knowledge, abilities and skills in the industrial chemical engineering field.
Transversal skills
CT.1. Analysis and synthesis skills
CT.6. Solution of problems
CT.7. Decision making
CT.13. Application of knowledge to the reality. Work exhibition.
CT.19. Autonomous learning.
Knowledge related to safety in industrial processes will be included in relation with skills CG3 and CG4, in the solution of problems. Also theoretical contents regarding risk analysis and safety will be included in the subject.
This subject will be phased out in the 2025-2026 academic year, and therefore will not be taught. The detailed syllabus, basic and supplementary bibliography, and teaching materials for the final year with teaching rights (2024-2025) will be made available to students in the subject's Virtual Classroom. The only teaching methodology available in the context of a phased-out subject (without teaching rights) is individual tutorials, aimed at resolving specific theoretical, conceptual, and/or practical questions and difficulties. These tutorials require a prior appointment, and the teaching staff will determine the format of their delivery (in person or through MSTEAMS).
The assessment is based on the following elements:
1- Continuous assessment activities from the final year of teaching entitlement (2024-25). Percentage of final grade: 30%. Purpose: Optional.
2- Written exam: Exam of the entire syllabus on each occasion. Percentage of final grade: 70%. Purpose: Mandatory.
- The course will be considered passed if the final grade, taking into account the percentage of the total assessable aspects, is equal to or greater than 5 points, or if the final exam grade is higher than 5 points.
- If the student does not pass the course, the student may retake it on the second exam, in which the same criteria will be applied as for the first.
- In cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the Evaluation of Student Academic Performance and the Review of Grades will apply.
Ramon Felipe Moreira Martinez
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816759
- ramon.moreira [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Diego Gomez Diaz
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- diego.gomez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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