ME8391 ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS SYLLABUS/BOOKS AND MATERIALS
UNIT I BASIC CONCEPTS AND FIRST LAW
Basic concepts - concept of continuum, comparison of microscopic and macroscopic approach.Path and point functions. Intensive and extensive, total and specific quantities. System and theirtypes. Thermodynamic Equilibrium State, path and process. Quasi-static, reversible and irreversible processes. Heat and work transfer, definition and comparison, sign convention. Displacementwork and other modes of work .P-V diagram. Zeroth law of thermodynamics – concept oftemperature and thermal equilibrium– relationship between temperature scales –new temperaturescales. First law of thermodynamics –application to closed and open systems – steady andunsteady flow processes.
UNIT II SECOND LAW AND AVAILABILITY ANALYSIS
Heat Reservoir, source and sink. Heat Engine, Refrigerator, Heat pump. Statements of secondlaw and its corollaries. Carnot cycle Reversed Carnot cycle, Performance. Clausius inequality.Concept of entropy, T-s diagram, Tds Equations, entropy change for - pure substance, ideal gases -different processes, principle of increase in entropy. Applications of II Law. High and low gradeenergy. Available and non-available energy of a source and finite body. Energy and irreversibility.Expressions for the energy of a closed system and open systems. Energy balance andentropy generation. Irreversibility. I and II law Efficiency.
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UNIT III PROPERTIES OF PURE SUBSTANCE AND STEAM POWER CYCLE
Formation of steam and its thermodynamic properties, p-v, p-T, T-v, T-s, h-s diagrams. p-v-Tsurface. Use of Steam Table and Mollier Chart. Determination of dryness fraction. Application of Iand II law for pure substances. Ideal and actual Rankine cycles, Cycle Improvement Methods -Reheat and Regenerative cycles, Economiser, preheater, Binary and Combined cycles.
UNIT IV IDEAL AND REAL GASES, THERMODYNAMIC RELATIONS
Properties of Ideal gas- Ideal and real gas comparison- Equations of state for ideal and real gases-Reduced properties. Compressibility factor-.Principle of Corresponding states. -Generalised Compressibility Chart and its use-. Maxwell relations, Tds Equations, Difference and ratio ofheat capacities, Energy equation, Joule-Thomson Coefficient, Clausius Clapeyron equation, Phase Change Processes. Simple Calculations.
UNIT V GAS MIXTURES AND PSYCHROMETRY
Mole and Mass fraction, Dalton’s and Amagat’s Law. Properties of gas mixture – Molar mass, gas constant, density, change in internal energy, enthalpy, entropy and Gibbs function. Psychrometric properties, Psychrometric charts. Property calculations of air vapour mixtures by using chart and expressions. Psychrometric process – adiabatic saturation, sensible heating and cooling, humidification, dehumidification, evaporative cooling and adiabatic mixing. Simple Applications.