Course description

Title of the Teaching Unit

Energetics

Code of the Teaching Unit

12UST30

Academic year

2024 - 2025

Cycle

Number of credits

4

Number of hours

45

Quarter

2

Weighting

Site

Anjou

Teaching language

French

Teacher in charge

BERGER Benjamin

Objectives and contribution to the program

Energy, its use and conversion paths are at the core of all human activities. Two basic principles, the thermodynamics first and second laws, rule the fundamentals of all the aspects of energy use and conversion.
This class introduces these two laws and, combined with learning outcomes from basis in Chemistry II, presents their applications on practical problems of thermodynamics systems like compressors or turbines.
The class also prepares the students to the study of complex conversion cycles (e.g. steam cycles).

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basis in Chemistry (Chimie II)

Content

• Laws and transformations of perfect gases
• First and second principles of thermodynamics
• Work Equation for thermodynamic transformations
• Compressors and turbines : introduction and applications
• Pressure drops : introduction and applications
• Steam and Mollier diagram : introduction and applications
• Steam cycles : introduction

Teaching methods

Two types of activities :

- Lectures
- Practical classes

Assessment method

The examination will consist of practical questions involving theatrical concepts of the lectures and practical classes.

References

MARTIN & WAUTERS, Eléments de thermodynamique technique, 1ère Ed., Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2014.
ENGEL & REID, Thermodynamics, Statistical thermodynamics & Kinetics, 2nd Ed., Pearson Education, 2009.
CENGEL & BOLES, Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach, McGraw-Hill, 2010.