Heat exchangers. Compression and expansion transformations.
Introduction and classification of fluid machinery. Energy source, demand, and production.
Gas turbine plants: Base plant and the Joule cycle. Efficiency and specific power of ideal and limit cycles. Real cycle. Power variation. Close cycle plants. Thermal regeneration. Inter-cooled compression and post-combustion. The gas turbines for the aircraft propulsion.
Steam plants: Base plant and the Hirn cycle. Steam generators and heat exchangers. Effects of the condenser and steam generator parameters. Multiple re-heating. The thermal regeneration. Combined plants: combining different machines within the same plant, steam-gas combined plants.
Mechanical refrigerators: inverse Rankine cycle, base plant, working principle, refrigerant fluids, the domestic refrigerator, heat pumps.
Absorption refrigerators: base plant, working principle, P-T-x diagrams, absorption heat pumps.
Incompressible flow turbines: Classification, similitude parameters, and application fields. Pelton turbine, Francis turbine, Kaplan Turbine. Power regulation. Cavitation
Compressible flow turbines: Classification, similitude parameters, and application fields. Zero reaction stage. Reaction Stage. Variable Reaction stage. Multi stage turbines. Power regulation. Sealing in multi-stage turbines