2022/23 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue
JALJ0007 Thermodynamics of Mixtures
10 creditsClass Size: 20
Module manager: Professor Iztok Golobic
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Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2022/23
Pre-requisite qualifications
Min 2(i) Engineering or Physical SciencesThis module is not approved as an Elective
Objectives
The objective of this course is to provide the students with the fundamental knowledge to be able to understand and thermodynamically describe mixtures and processes involving mixtures.Learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding
Successfully executed study obligations in the Thermodynamics of mixtures course enable the students to understand and describe the basic processes involving mixtures. Based on the knowledge and understanding the description of processes involving mixtures, being fundamental for the procedures in process engineering, the students in possession of fundamental knowledge will be able to participate in further in-depth studies of processes in energy and process engineering, as well as to solve complex problems in this field in a wider working environment.
Usage
The knowledge attained will upgrade the students' previous knowledge with a basic understanding of processes involving mixtures and the description thereof. This will be beneficial to students in understanding the subject matter and in executing the study obligations in scope of other professional courses. The knowledge attained will be a good starting point for understanding and describing phenomena and processes involving mixtures in process engineering, as well as for engineering activity in the field of emission reduction.
Reflection
The knowledge on the thermodynamics of mixtures will enable the students to understand the processes involving mixtures in their environment. Together with the knowledge from the other study disciplines, this will qualify the students for a more accurate qualitative description of processes, as well as equip them with an engineer's attitude towards the activities around them and in the industrial environment.
Transferrable skills related to more than one course
A systematic description and approach to the treatment and evaluation of individual processes or events enables the students to make a qualitative description and gain an engineer's attitude towards the treatment of a given problem, enabling them the necessary judgment for a successful research and applied work.
Skills outcomes
The students will earn competences enabling them to understand the processes involving bi- and multicomponent mixtures in different states of matter. This will enable them to understand and deepen their work on processes in process engineering, providing them with the foundation for an in-depth study of narrower professional fields of energy and process engineering.
Syllabus
- Introduction, mixtures of ideal gases, mixtures of gases and vapours, moist air, Mollier h-x diagram, dry- and wet-bulb temperature;
- Conservation of mass and energy in psychrometric systems, heating and cooling, mixing of moist air flows, humidification and dehumidification, evaporative cooling, air conditioning, cooling tower, drying;
- Gibbs free energy and chemical potential, main Gibbs equation;
- Real mixtures, equations of state for pure matter, equations of state for mixtures;
- Gibss phase rule, phase diagrams, chemical potential of real fluids, fugacity and fugacity coefficient, activity and activity coefficient, ideal solutions, excess quantities;
- Vapor liquid equilibrium in a mixture, equilibrium and stability;
- Thermodynamic processes involving mixtures, exergy analysis;
- Chemical reactions and combustion, Hess law, enthalpy of formation, fuel cells;
- Chemical and phase equilibria, using equilibrium criteria for chemical reactions;
Transport properties of matter, databases of thermodynamic material properties of pure matters and mixtures.
Teaching methods
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
| Lecture | 30 | 1.00 | 30.00 |
| Tutorial | 30 | 1.00 | 30.00 |
| Private study hours | 60.00 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 60.00 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 120.00 | ||
Methods of assessment
Coursework
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
| Tutorial Performance | . | 50.00 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 50.00 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
Exams
| Exam type | Exam duration | % of formal assessment |
| Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc) | 1 hr | 50.00 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Exams) | 50.00 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
Reading list
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