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Thermodynamics Syllabus

This document outlines a course on thermodynamics that is 4 credits and includes 3 hours of lectures and 1 hour of tutorials per week. The course covers basic concepts of thermodynamics including the zeroth, first and second laws. It also covers properties of pure substances and ideal/real gases. Specific topics include closed and open systems, quasi-static processes, heat/work, entropy, steam processes, gas laws, cycles like Rankine and Brayton. The objectives are for students to analyze thermodynamic cycles and apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering.

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Thermodynamics Syllabus

This document outlines a course on thermodynamics that is 4 credits and includes 3 hours of lectures and 1 hour of tutorials per week. The course covers basic concepts of thermodynamics including the zeroth, first and second laws. It also covers properties of pure substances and ideal/real gases. Specific topics include closed and open systems, quasi-static processes, heat/work, entropy, steam processes, gas laws, cycles like Rankine and Brayton. The objectives are for students to analyze thermodynamic cycles and apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering.

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BES017A- Thermodynamics Credits:4


3-1-0

Course Objective: The student will able to:


 thermodynamic systems and boundaries and study the basic laws of thermodynamics
including conservation of mass, conservation of energy or first law& second law.
 an ability to apply knowledge of basic mathematics, science and engineering
UNIT I:
Basic Concepts:- Macroscopic and Microscopic Approach,,Thermodynamic systems - closed,
open and isolated. Surrounding and Boundary, Thermodynamic Property, Thermodynamic
Equilibrium, state, path, processes and cycles, Quasi-static process, Concept of temperature,
Thermodynamic Work and Heat, work transfer to different processes. Zeroth law of
thermodynamics, Concept of ideal and real gases.
UNIT II:
First Law of Thermodynamics: - Energy and its Forms, Concepts of Internal Energy, First Law
of Thermodynamics, Specific Heat Capacities,Enthalpy. Perpetual Motion Machine of First
Kind, 1st Law Applied to Non-Flow Process, Steady Flow Process & Transient Flow Process.
Steady-Flow Engineering Devices, Limitations of First Law.
UNIT III:
Second Law of Thermodynamics:-, Thermal Reservoir Heat Source and Sink, Heat Kelvin-
Planck and Clausius Statements, Heat Engine, efficiency of Heat Engine, Refrigerator and Heat
Pump, COP, Perpetual Motion Machine of Second Kind, Carnot Cycle, the Carnot Theorem and
its Corollaries, the thermodynamic temperature scale. Reversible and irreversible processes,
Clausius inequality, concept of entropy, entropy principle, Temperature Entropy Plot, Entropy
Change in Different Processes, Introduction to Third Law of Thermodynamics.
UNIT IV:
Properties of Pure Substance: - Properties of pure substances. Thermodynamic propertiesof pure
substances in solid, liquid and vapour phases. Phase rule, P-V, P-T, T-V, T-S, H-S diagrams,
Properties of Dry, Wet and Superheated Steam, Property Changes during Steam Processes and
Measurement of Dryness Fraction of Steam.
Ideal and Real Gases:- Concept of an Ideal Gas, Basic Gas Laws, Characteristic Gas Equation,
Avogadro’s law and Universal Gas Constant. Vander Waal’s Equation of state, Reduced Co-
ordinates, Compressibility factor and law of corresponding states, Mixture of Gases, Mass, Mole
and Volume Fraction, Gibson Dalton’s law, Gas Constant and Specific Heats, Entropy for a
mixture of Gases.
UNIT V:
Power Cycles: - Vapour power cycles, the Carnot vapor cycle,Rankine cycle, the ideal reheat and
regenerative cycles, Gas power cycles, Basic considerations in the analysis of power cycles, air
standard cycles, Otto cycle, diesel engine cycle, gas-turbine Brayton cycle,
Thermodynamic Relations: Tds Relations, Enthalpy and Internal Energy as a Function of
Independent Variables, Specific Heat Capacity Relations, Clapeyron Equation, Maxwell
Relations.
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Text Books:
1. Nag.P.K., “Engineering Thermodynamics”, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi.
Reference Books:
1. Cengel, „Thermodynamics – An Engineering Approach‟ Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi.
2. Moran, M. J., Shapiro, H. N., Boettner, D. D., & Bailey, M. Fundamentals of Engineering
Thermodynamics: John Wiley & Sons.
Course Outcome:- At the end of the course the students
 will be able to analyze and evaluate various thermodynamic cycles used for
energy production - work and heat, within the natural limits of conversion
 an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering;

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