EME 2315: Thermodynamics

Note Making Guide on 1st Law for Flow Processes

Read the following section:

Textbook: Engineering Thermodynamics: Work and Heat Transfer, 4th Edition by G. F. C. Rogers and Y. R.
Mayhew (Longman Scientific and Technical).
Section: Flow Processes (pg. 36 – 49)

Ensure that you know the following:

1. Definition shaft work

2. Write out the steady flow energy equation and define each of the six components.

3. Spell out the four basis upon which the steady flow energy equation is based upon.

4. Write out the continuity equation (principle of conservation of mass).

5. Why is the potential energy term, {g(Z2 – Z1)}, omitted in the examples dealt with in this course.

6. Define the purpose of each of the following equipment:

a) Boiler

b) Condenser

7. Boiler and Condenser:

a) Write out the form of the steady flow energy equation for boilers and condensers

b) Why is the kinetic energy term omitted in the steady flow energy equation for boilers and

condensers?

8. Define a turbine.

9. Turbines:

a) Write out the form of the steady flow energy equation for a turbine.

b) Why is the kinetic energy term omitted in the steady flow energy equation for a turbine?

c) Why is the heat flow rate term omitted in the steady flow energy equation for a turbine?

10. In which industrial application would the components listed above (boiler, turbine and condenser) and a

feed pump be combined into a system?

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