ESS 2410 工程熱力學
Engineering Thermodynamics

The course will be offered in English in regular sessions. The contents of the
lecture will be reviewed in Chinese in an extra hour of lecture each week. AI is
not applicable in this course.

Course Description
This course is the second course of thermodynamics. The pre-required of
this course is “Thermodynamics”. The topics covered in this course are
listed according to the text book chosen. This course is the fundamental
course for the field of Nuclear Power Plant Technology, Energy Engineering
and System, and micro electric machines engineering.

Contents Hours Homework
Overview and Review 4 #1
Chapter 8 Exergy 6 #2
Chapter 9 Gas Power Cycles 8 #3, #4
Chapter 10 Vapor and Combined Power Cycles 8 #5, #6

Mid-term Examination:April 7th, Wednesday, 7:00pm Room 402

Chapter 11 Refrigeration Cycles 7 #7
Chapter 13 Gas Mixtures 2 #8
Chapter 14 Gas-Vapor Mixture and
Air-Conditioning 6 #9
Chapter 15 Chemical Reaction 8 #10,#11

Final Examination:June 19th , Wednesday, 7:00pm Room 402



Text:Yunus A. Cengel, Michael A. Boles, Mehmet Kanoglu, "Thermodynamics; an
Engineering Approach," Ninth Edition in SI Unit, McGraw Hill, 2020.

Reference:Michael J. Moran; Howard N. Sphapiro, "Fundamentals of Engineering
Thermodynamics," Global Edition, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2017.

Richard E. Sonntag, Claus Borgnakke, and Gordan J.Van Wylen, "Fundamentals of
Engineering Thermodynamics," 6th Edition, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2002.

Grade Option A Option B
Mid-term Examination 30% 35%
Final Examination 45% 55%
Homework 15%
Quiz 10 % 10%