As a result, the discipline, the expert should know:
- methods of calculation and research of the physical characteristics of the working bodies;
- the laws of thermodynamics and thermodynamic processes;
- calculation of working bodies in the outflow channels of variable section;
- research methods cycles.
Prepared specialist should be able to:
- determine the thermal characteristics of working fluids;
- calculate the cycles of heat engines, heat pumps and refrigerating machines;
- determine the parameters of the flow of working fluids in channels of variable section.

Prerequisites:
- Higher Mathematics
- Physics
- Chemistry
Co-requisites:
- Turbines of Nuclear Power Plants

The real work of the body. Characteristic functions of thermodynamics. The equation of state of real gas. Thermal and caloric properties of real gases. Thermal properties of materials on the line of phase transformations. Two-phase system. The properties of substances at the critical point. Thermodynamic diagrams substances. Water vapor. The process of pairing and its properties. Characteristics of steam. Table water vapor. І-S diagram of water vapor. Thermodynamic of water vapor processes. Moist air. Parameters humid air. Calculation of parameters humid air. І-d diagram. The processes humid air. Air conditioning. Theoretical steam cycle power plant. Principle scheme steam power plant. The energy balance, efficiency, power efficiency steam cycle power plant. Secondary overheating, thermodynamic basics heating power station. Regenerative steam cycle power plant calculations. Cycles refrigerating machines. Methods to reduce the temperature of the working fluid.

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• Current control (30%): written reports on laboratory work, written reports on calculation works, oral examination.
• Final control (70 %, control measure): written-oral form (70%)