| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 378 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Preface * Structure * Notation * State of equilibrium * Availability and exergy * Pinch technology * Rational efficiency * Efficiency of an internally reversible heat engine when producing maximum work output * Relationship between properties * Equations of state * Liquefaction of gases * Thermodynamic properties of ideal gases and ideal gas mixtures of constant composition * Thermodynamics of combustion * Chemistry of combustion * Chemical equilibrium and dissociation * Effect of dissociation on combustion parameters * Chemical kinetics * Combustion and flames * Irreversible thermodynamics * Fuel cells |
| Summary |
Introduces basic concepts that apply over a range of engineering thermodymanics technologies. Considers approaches to cycles, enabling their irreversibility to be taken into account. Gives a detailed study of combustion to show how the chemical energy in a fuel is converted into thermal energy and emissions; analyses fuel cells to provide an understanding of the direct conversion of chemical energy to electrical power; studies property relationships to enable more sophisticated analyses to be made of both high and low temperature plant and irreversible thermodynamics, which contain principles that might hold a key to new ways of efficiently converting energy to power |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Thermodynamics.
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Thermodynamics
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thermodynamics.
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Thermodynamics
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Thermocinétique.
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Thermodynamique.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
97114642 |
| ISBN |
1591241758 |
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9781591241751 |
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9780340676998 |
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034067699X |
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