Courses Handbook 2010

302249 (v.2) ChE 223 Thermodynamics


Area: Department of Chemical Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 302240 (v.3) ChE 227 Process Principles or any previous version
OR
7039 (v.5) Chemistry 101 or any previous version
Syllabus: Energy statements for batch and flow processes. First, second and third laws. Available energy. Analysis of heating. Compression and expansion processes. Ideal and real gases. Compressibility factors and other methods of accounting for non-ideality. Phase behaviour and critical conditions. Phase equilibrium. Free energy and chemical potential. Mixtures and activity coefficients. Chemical reaction equilibrium. Power cycles.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 030301 Chemical Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2010 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        
2010 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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