Engineering Thermodynamics (PCMET403) Syllabus

Introduction and basic concepts, application areas of thermodynamics, macroscopic and microscopic viewpoints, continuum, systems and control volumes, types of systems, properties of a system, state and equilibrium, the state postulate, processes and cycles. Temperature and the zeroth law of thermodynamics, temperature scales, forms of energy, physical insight to internal energy, energy transfer by heat and work, path function.

First law of thermodynamics, energy balance, mechanisms of energy transfer, moving boundary work, boundary work for a polytropic process, energy balance for closed systems, enthalpy and specific heats, flow work and the energy of a flowing fluid, mass and energy analysis of control volumes, SFEE, steady-flow devices — nozzles and diffusers, throttling valves, mixing chambers. Thermal energy reservoirs, heat engines and thermal efficiency, refrigerators and heat pumps, COP.

Second law: Kelvin-Planck statement, Clausius statement, equivalence of the two statements, perpetual-motion machines, reversible and irreversible processes, internally reversible processes. Carnot and reversed Carnot cycle, Carnot principles, thermodynamic temperature scale, entropy, internally reversible isothermal heat transfer, the increase of entropy principle, the Tds relations, isentropic efficiency, exergy, reversible work and irreversibility, second-law efficiency. Entropy generation, isentropic process, third law of thermodynamics.

Phase transformations of a pure substance, saturated liquid, saturated vapor and superheated vapor, triple point, properties during change of phase, T-v, p-v and p-T diagram of a pure substance, Mollier charts, dryness fraction, property calculations using steam tables, isentropic efficiency of steam turbines and nozzles, ideal gas equation, gas constants, deviations from the ideal gas model, compressibility, Van der Waals equation of state.