Overview
- Self-contained Textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in engineering, physics and chemistry
- Unique and complete collection of thermodynamics, advanced thermodynamics and energy conversion
- Includes problems, exercises and a multitude real-world examples appropriate also for self-studies
- Author has taught thermodynamics and energy conversion for years
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This textbook gives a thorough treatment of engineering thermodynamics with applications to classical and modern energy conversion devices.
Some emphasis lies on the description of irreversible processes, such as friction, heat transfer and mixing and the evaluation of the related work losses. Better use of resources requires high efficiencies therefore the reduction of irreversible losses should be seen as one of the main goals of a thermal engineer. This book provides the necessary tools.
Topics include: car and aircraft engines, including Otto, Diesel and Atkinson cycles, by-pass turbofan engines, ramjet and scramjet; steam and gas power plants, including advanced regenerative systems, solar tower and compressed air energy storage; mixing and separation, including reverse osmosis, osmotic power plants and carbon sequestration; phase equilibrium and chemical equilibrium, distillation, chemical reactors, combustion processes and fuel cells; the microscopic definition of entropy.
The book includes about 300 end-of-chapter problems for homework assignments and exams. The material presented suffices for two or three full-term courses on thermodynamics and energy conversion.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Thermodynamics and Energy Conversion
Authors: Henning Struchtrup
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43715-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-43714-8Published: 04 August 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51875-5Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-43715-5Published: 02 July 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 597
Number of Illustrations: 205 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Thermodynamics, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Engineering Fluid Dynamics, Classical and Continuum Physics, Energy Systems