This introduction covers the fundamentals of thermodynamics required to model technical thermodynamic systems at the example of heat pumps. The course applies the theoretical concepts using Python codes and covers an introduction to fluid property models, different approaches for modeling component based thermodynamic systems and the implementation of such models in an open source framework, i.e. TESPy. Check out the course here.
The course is an open source project developed by Francesco Witte. You are invited to contribute to the project!
The tutorial is separated in three chapters:
- Brief introduction to the fundamentals in context thermal modeling
- Application of two approaches to model full systems, e.g. heat pumps
- Using the process simulation software tespy to perform the same tasks
Every chapter has a section with a couple of exercises, where you can implement the models with python code.
The course employs python to model the heat pump systems. In order to complete it, you have to install python on your machine. With that done, you will need a virtual environment with a couple of dependencies installed to execute the python code. You can follow the instructions provided on the TESPy documentation. On top of that, you can use something like jupyterlab for interactive code development and execution.
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