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ENME485

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Mechanical Engineering Thermodynamics

Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering EN - Schulich School of Engineering

Subject

ENME - Mechanical Engineering

Description

Review of fundamentals; thermodynamic properties; flow and non-flow processes; Carnot cycle; Rankine cycle including reheat and regeneration. Engine gas cycles including Otto, Diesel and dual combustion cycles; simple gas turbines; reheat, intercooling, and heat exchange. Reciprocating air compressors and expanders. Heat-pump and refrigeration cycles and their performance criteria. Air conditioning process and psychrometry. Combustion processes, chemical equilibrium, dissociation.

Prerequisite(s): Engineering 311 or Physics 449.

Course Attributes

Fee Rate Group(Domestic) - D, Fee Rate Group(International) -C, GFC Hours (3-1T-3/2), RCS Related, FRGD - D (Fee Rate Group(Domestic) - D), FRGI - C (Fee Rate Group(Int'l) - C), GFCH - 3-1T-3/2 ((3-1T-3/2)), RCS - RLT (Related)

Courses may consist of a Lecture, Lab, Tutorial, and/or Seminar. Students will be required to register in each component that is required for the course as indicated in the schedule of classes. Practicums, internships or other experiential learning modalities are typically indicated as a Lab component.

Component

LAB

Component

LEC

Component

TUT

Units

3

Repeat for Credit

No

Subject code

ENME