UNIT 1:
Basic concepts - concept of continuum
Comparison of microscopic and macroscopic approach - Path and point functions - Intensive and extensive
Total and specific quantities - System and their types
Thermodynamic Equilibrium State - path and process - Quasi - static - reversible and irreversible processes
Heat and work transfer - definition and comparison
Sign convention - Displacement work and other modes of work - P - V diagram
Zeroth law of thermodynamics - First law of thermodynamics
Application to closed and open systems -steady flow processes and its applications.
UNIT 2:
Formation of steam and its thermodynamic properties – wet steam, dry steam and superheated steam
Dryness fraction-enthalpy calculation for different stages of steam
P-V, P-T, T-V, T-s, h-s diagrams
P -V-T surface - Use of Steam Table and Mollier Chart
Determination of dryness fraction using Throttling, Separating and Throttling
Application of I law for pure substances
UNIT 3:
Second law of Thermodynamics - Statements of second law and its corollaries
Carnot cycle -Reversed Carnot cycle - Performance
Carnot theorem - Clausius equality – inequality.
Qualitative Treatment only: Concept of Entropy -T-s diagram -entropy change for pure substance
Ideal gases - different processes - principle of increase in entropy
Applications of II Law –energy analysis and its applications
UNIT 4:
Reheat and Regenerative cycles
Qualitative Treatment only: Economiser - preheater
Brayton cycle (Gas power cycle)-Cycle Improvement Methods
Ideal and actual Rankine cycles (steam power cycle)
Superheater- Condenser- Cogeneration Introduction - Binary and Combined cycles.
UNIT 5:
Mole and Mass fraction - Dalton’s. Properties of gas mixture -Molar mass - gas constant - density
Properties of Ideal gas - Ideal and real gas comparison
Equations of state for ideal and real Gases - Reduced Properties
Compressibility Factor - Maxwell relations
Tds Equations - Difference and ratio of heat Capacities
Clausius - Clapeyron equation and its applications
Energy Equation - Joule -Thomson Coefficient
