06ME33 Basic Thermodynamics syllabus for ME


Part A
Unit-1 Fundamental Concepts & Definitions 7 hours

Thermodynamics; definition and scope. Microscopic and Macroscopic approaches. Engineering Thermodynamics Definition, some practical applications of engineering thermodynamic. System (closed system) and Control Volume (open system); Characteristics of system boundary and control surface, examples. Thermodynamic properties; definition and units, intensive and extensive properties. Thermodynamic state, state point, state diagram, path and process, quasi-static process, cyclic and non-cyclic processes; Thermodynamic equilibrium; definition, mechanical equilibrium; diathermic wall, thermal equilibrium, chemical equilibrium- Zeroth law of thermodynamics, Temperature; concepts, scales, measurement. Internal fixed points.

Unit-2 Work & Heat 6 hours

Mechanics, definition of work and its limitations. Thermodynamic definition of work; examples, sign convention. Displacement work; at part of a system boundary, at whole of a system boundary, expressions for displacement work in various processes through p-v diagrams. Shaft work; Electrical work. Other types of work. Heat; definition, units and sign convention, what heat is not.

Unit-3 First Law of Thermodynamics 6 hours

Joule’s experiments, equivalence of heat and work. Statement of the First law of thermodynamics, extension of the First law to non -cyclic processes, energy, energy as a property, modes of energy, pure substance; definition, two-property rule, Specific heat at constant volume, enthalpy, specific heat at constant pressure. Extension of the First law to control volume; steady state-steady flow energy equation, important applications, analysis of unsteady processes such as filling and evacuation of vessels with and without heat transfer.

Unit-4 Second Law of Thermodynamics 7 hours

Devices converting heat to work; (a) in a thermodynamic cycle, (b) in a mechanical cycle. Thermal reservoir. Direct heat engine; schematic representation and efficiency. Devices converting work to heat in a thermodynamic cycle; reversed heat engine, schematic representation, coefficients of performance. Kelvin -Planck statement of the Second law of Thermodynamic; PMM I and PMM1I. Clasiu's statement .of Second law of Thermodynamic; Equivalence of the two statements; Reversible and irreversible processes; factors that make a process .irreversible, reversible heat engines, Carnot cycle, Carnot principles. Thermodynamic temperature scale.

Part B
Unit-5 Entropy 7 hours

Clasiu’s inequality; statement, proof, application to a reversible cycle. QR/T as independent of the path. Entropy; definition, a property, principle of increase of entropy, entropy as a quantitative test for irreversibility, calculation of entropy using Tds relations, entropy as a coordinate. Available and unavailable energy.

Unit-6 Availability and Irreversibility 6 hours

Maximum Work, maximum useful work for a system and a control volume, availability of a system and a steadily flowing stream, irreversibility. Second law efficiency.

Unit-7 Pure substances 6 hours

P-T and P-V diagrams, triple point and critical points. Sub- cooled liquid, saturated liquid, mixture of saturated liquid and vapor, saturated vapor and superheated vapour states of a pure substance with water as example. Enthalpy of change of phase (Latent heat). Dryness factor (quality), T-S and h-s diagrams, representation of various processes on these diagrams. Steam tables and its use. Throttling calorimeter, separating and throttling calorimeter.

Unit-8 Real and ideal gases 7 hours

Introduction; Vander Waal's Equation Van der Waal's constants in terms of critical properties, law of corresponding states, compressibility factor; compressibility)" chart. Ideal gas; equation of state, internal energy and enthalpy as functions of temperature only, universal and particular gas constants, specific heats, perfect and semi-perfect gases. Evaluation of heat, work, change in internal energy, enthalpy and entropy in various quasi-static processes. Ideal gas mixture; Dalton's law of additive pressures, Amagat's law of additive volumes, evaluation of properties. Analysis of various processes.

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