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COURSE CODE: FST 204
COURSE TITLE: Introduction to Engineering Thermodynamics
NUMBER OF UNITS: 3 Units
COURSE DURATION: Three hours per week
COURSE DETAILS:
Course Coordinator: Prof. L.O. Sanni, B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD
Email: lateef_2@yahoo.com ; lsanni@cgiar.org
Office Location: Food Science and Technology Department, COLFHEC
Other Lecturers:
COURSE SYNOPSIS
Basic concepts; definitions; first and second laws, ideal gases; heat and work; corollaries of laws and their consequences; application to open and closed systems. Flow and non-flow processes such as turbines, compressors, evaporators, combustion, nozzles, diffusers.
Steady state equation (Bernoulli’s equation) and applications. Heat cycles; cannot cycle; properties of pure substances; use of steam tables.
