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PET 401 Applied Thermodynamics

HND2 levelEngineering & Technology13 topics

PET 401 covers 13 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Gas mixtures and partial pressure laws
  2. Psychrometric properties of air-vapour mixtures
  3. Psychrometric charts and applications
  4. Second law of thermodynamics
  5. Heat, work and property relations
  6. Entropy and reversible processes
  7. Internal energy, enthalpy and flow work
  8. Power cycles for IC engines
  9. IC engine performance parameters
  10. Energy balance in engines
  11. Compressors and compression processes
  12. Reciprocating and rotary compressor analysis
  13. Compressor capacity and efficiency calculations

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Gas mixtures and partial pressure laws

Gas mixtures are collections of different gases that behave as if each gas were alone, following Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressures. Mastering partial pressures, mole fractions, and the ideal gas equation for mixtures is essential because exam questions frequently ask you to calculate total pressure, partial pressure, or composition from given data.

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