Citation (IEEE): M. J. Moran, H. N. Shapiro, D. D. Boettner, and M. B. Bailey, Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, 9th ed. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley, 2018.
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What it argues
A widely used thermodynamics textbook. It builds from the first and second laws, properties of substances, control-volume analysis, entropy and exergy, to applications in power and refrigeration cycles. Its chapter on refrigeration and heat pump systems, used in the course, analyzes the vapor-compression cycle component by component. It defines the coefficient of performance and compares it with the Carnot limit, and shows how operating temperatures and component losses affect performance.