ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY

ADDIS ABABA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Course Title : Thermodynamics I

Course No. : MEng 2102
Instructor : Yidnekachew M. (Office No 322)

Course Objectives:
The course enables to:
• Understand the relationship between internal energy, heat and work as expressed
by the First Law of Thermodynamics;
• Apply the conservation of energy to thermodynamic systems
• State and explain the Second Law of Thermodynamics
• Explain how the Carnot cycle applies to heat engines and refrigeration cycles
• Explain the concept of entropy
• Apply the concept of availability, irreversibility and the second law in defining the
efficiency of a system
Course Outline

1. Introductory Concepts and Definitions

1.1. Introduction
1.2. Closed , Open, and Isolated Systems
1.3. State, Equilibrium, Process and Property
1.4. Dimensions and Units
1.5. Specific Volume, Pressure and Temperature

2. Properties of Pure Substances

2.1 Pure substances
2.2 Fixing the State of a Simple Pure Substance
2.3 P-V-T Diagram
2.4 Thermodynamic Property Tables
2.5 Equation of State.

3. Energy Transport by Work, Heat and Mass

3.1 Energy of a System
3.2 Energy Transport by Heat and Work
3.3 Boundary Work
3.4 Energy Transport by Mass

4. The First Law of Thermodynamics and Energy

4.1 The First Law of a Closed System
4.2 Specific Heats
4.3 The First Law for a Control Volume
4.4 Some Steady Flow Engineering Devices
 5. The Second Law of Thermodynamics
5.1 Some Basic Definitions
5.2 Statements of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
5.3 Perpetual Motion Machine
5.4 Reversible and Irreversible Processes
5.5 The Carnot Cycle
5.6 The Thermodynamic Temperature Scale

6. Entropy
6.1 Entropy and the Clausius Inequality
6.2 Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
6.3 Heat Transfer as the Area Under the T-s Curve
6.4 Isothermal and Adiabatic Reversible Processes
6.5 Isentropic Process of an Ideal Gas
6.6 Isentropic Efficiencies of Turbines, Compressors, Pumps, and Nozzles

7. Availability and Irreversibility

7.1 Introduction;
7.2 System under going a steady state process;
7.3 Control volume under going a steady state process;
7.4 Control volume under going unsteady state process;
7.5 Availability; Second law efficiency.

TEXT: - Tesfaye Dama, “Thermodynamics I”, Addis Ababa University Press, 2000

References :

 Cengel Y. A., Bole M.A. , “Thermodynamics- An Engineering Approach”, McGraw-

Hill
 Michael J. Moran, H.N. Shapiro, “Fundamental of Engineering Thermodynamics”,
John Wiley and Sons. Inc.
 Sonntag R.E., “Fundamental of Thermodynamics”, McGraw-Hill
 Eastop T.D. & A. McConkey A., “Applied Thermodynamics”
 R.E. Sonntag & G.L. Van Wylen, “Introduction to Thermodynamics; Classical &
Statistical”

EVALUATION

Assignments 10%
Quizzes 10%
Mid-semester Examination 30%
Final Examination 50%