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This document outlines the topics of a thermodynamics course including the first and second laws of thermodynamics, auxiliary functions like enthalpy and Gibbs free energy, heat capacity and entropy, phase equilibria, behavior of gases and solutions, and chemical reactions involving different phases. It provides definitions and concepts for each topic.

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Content Thermodynamics

This document outlines the topics of a thermodynamics course including the first and second laws of thermodynamics, auxiliary functions like enthalpy and Gibbs free energy, heat capacity and entropy, phase equilibria, behavior of gases and solutions, and chemical reactions involving different phases. It provides definitions and concepts for each topic.

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1. INTRODUCTION,DEFINITIONS AND BASIC CONCEPTS


 Concept of State
 Definitions
 Properties of system
 Thermodynamic concepts
 Thermodynamic Equilibrium Processes
 
2. FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
 Heat and work
 Internal Energy and the first law of Thermodynamics
 Constant Volume Processes
 Constant Pressure Processes and the Enthalpy
 Heat Capacities
 Reversible adiabatic processes
 Reversible isothermal processes/volume changes of ideal gases
3. SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
 Spontaneous processes
 Entropy and irreversibility
 Reversible processes
 Entropy and Reversible heat
 Entropy and Criterion for Equilibrium
 
4. AUXILIARY FUNCTIONS
 Enthalpy, H
 Helmholtz Free energy, A
 Gibbs Free Energy
 Chemical Potential
 Thermodynamic Relations and Maxwell’s Equations
 Gibbs- Helmholtz Equation
5. HEAT CAPACITY, ENTHALPY, ENTROPY AND THE THIRD LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
 Enthalpy as a function of Temperature and composition
 Dependence of Entropy on temperature and Third law of Thermodynamics
 Influence of pressure on Enthalpy and Entropy

6. PHASE EQUILIBRIUM IN ONE COMPONENT SYSTEM


 Variation of Gibbs Free Energy
 Equilibrium between vapour and condensed phases
 Graphical representation of phase equilibria
 
7. BEHAVIOUR OF GASES
 Introduction
 P-V-T relationship
 Deviations from ideality and equations of state for real gases
 Thermodynamic of treatment of non-ideal gases
8. BEHAVIOUR OF SOLUTIONS
 Raoult’s and Henry’s Laws
 Activities of a component in solution
 Gibbs-Duhem Equation
 Raoultian ideal solutions
 Regular solutions
 
9. REACTIONS INVOLVING GASES AND REACTIONS INVOLVING PURE CONDENSED
PHASES AND A GASEOUS PHASE
 Reaction equation in a gas mixture and equilibrium constant
 Effect of Temperature and Pressure on equilibrium constant
 Reaction equilibrium in systems containing components in condensed phase
 Variation of standard Gibbs free Energy Change with temperature
 Ellingham Diagrams and Phase transformation effects
TEXTS
1. Introduction to thermodynamics of materials. David R Gaskell.

2. Engineering thermodynamics-R K Rajput

3. TREATISE ON PROCESS METALLURGY -Process Fundamentals-SESHADRI


SEETHARAMAN

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