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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

312175 (v.2) Thermodynamics 520

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Area: Department of Chemical Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 2.0
Lecture: 4 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Thermodynamic properties, work, heat, first, second and third laws; ideal and real gases, thermodynamic properties of fluids, production of power and power cycles, introduction to vapour liquid equilibrium, phase behaviour and critical conditions; free energy and chemical potential, mixtures and activity coefficients, phase equilibrium, chemical reaction equilibrium.
Field of Education: 030301 Chemical Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Essential
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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