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Author Benson, Rowland S

Title Advanced engineering thermodynamics / by Rowland S. Benson
Edition 2d ed
Published Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1977

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 345 pages) : illustrations
Series Thermodynamics and fluid mechanics series
Pergamon international library of science, technology, engineering, and social studies
Thermodynamics and fluid mechanics series.
Pergamon international library of science, technology, engineering, and social studies
Contents Front Cover; Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1. EQUILIBRIUM OF THERMODYNAMIC SYSTEMS; Notation; Concept of Equilibrium, Spontaneous Change and Criterion of Stability; Equilibrium of System; Equilibrium of System Obeying Van der Waals' Equation of State; Exercises; CHAPTER 2. THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF SYSTEMS OF CONSTANT CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; Notation; Thermodynamic Properties; Equation of State; Law of Corresponding States; Thermodynamic Relations for Pure Substance; Applications of Thermodynamic Relations
Relationships Between the Specific Heats at Constant Volume and the Specific Heats at Constant PressureThe Clausius-Clapeyron Equation; Liquefaction of Gases; Exercises; CHAPTER 3. THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF IDEAL GASES AND IDEAL GAS MIXTURES OF CONSTANT COMPOSITION; Notation; State Equation for all Ideal Gases; The Internal Energy and Enthalpy of an Ideal Gas; Entropy of an Ideal Gas -- The Third Law of Thermodynamics; The Gibbs Free Energy Function for an Ideal Gas; Mixtures of Ideal Gases; Heats of Reaction or Calorific Values and Adiabatic Combustion; Heats of Formation and Hess' s Law
Entropy of Ideal Gas MixturesExercises; CHAPTER 4. THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF GAS MIXTURES WITH VARIABLE COMPOSITION; Notation; Thermodynamic Relations for Mixtures of Variable Composition; The Chemical Potential; Chemical Stoichiometry and Dissociation; Chemical Equilibrium; The Relationship Between the Equilibrium Constant and the Heat of Reaction -- Van't Hoff s Equation; Methods for Calculating Equilibrium Constants; The Calculation of Temperature Rise in a Combustion Reaction with Dissociation; The Lighthill Ideal Dissociating Gas; Ionization of Monatomic Gases
Non-Equilibrium Processes -- Equilibrium and Frozen FlowsExercises; CHAPTER 5. APPLICATION OF THERMODYNAMICS TO SPECIAL SYSTEMS; Notation; Elastic Systems; Systems with Surface Tension; Reversible Cell; Fuel Cell; Magnetic Systems; Steady State or Irreversible Thermodynamics; Thermoelectricity; Exercises; APPENDIX; TABLE A.l. Polynomial Coefficients; TABLE A.2. Ideal Gas Properties 0-6000°K; TABLE A.3. Ideal Gas Heats of Reaction 0-6000°K ... ; TABLE A.4. Ideal Gas Reaction Equilibrium Constants 500-6000°K; ANSWERS; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Thermodynamics.
Thermodynamics
thermodynamics.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Mechanical.
Thermodynamics
Thermodynamik
Form Electronic book
LC no. 76050049
ISBN 9781483139197
1483139190