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UNIT – 1: INTRODUCTION
Introduction- Basic Concepts: System,
Control Volume,
Surrounding,
Boundaries,
Universe,
Types of Systems,
Macroscopic and Microscopic viewpoints,
Concept of Continuum,
Thermodynamic Equilibrium,
State, Property, Process,
Exact & Inexact Differentials,
Cycle Reversibility Quasi – static Process,
Irreversible Process,
Causes of Irreversibility Energy and its forms,
Work and heat (sign convention),
Gas laws,
Ideal gas,
Real gas,
Law of corresponding states,
Dalton’s law,
Amagat’s law,
Property of mixture of gases.
Zeroth law of thermodynamics:
Concept of Temperature and its’ measurement,
Temperature scales.
First law of thermodynamics: Thermodynamic definition of work,
Displacement work and flow work,
Displacement work for various non flow processes,
Joules experiment,
First law analysis for closed system (non flow processes),
Internal energy and enthalpy.
Limitations of first law of thermodynamics,
PMM-1. Steady flow systems and their analysis,
Steady flow energy equation, Boilers, Condensers, Turbine,
Throttling process, Pumps etc.
Analysis of unsteady processes such as filling and evacuation of vessels with and without heat transfer.
UNIT – 2 : SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
Thermal reservoirs,
Energy conversion,
Heatengines, Efficiency,
Reversed heat engine, Heat pump, Refrigerator,
Coefficient of Performance,
Kelvin Planck and Clausius statementof second law of thermodynamics,
Equivalence of the two statements.
Reversible and irreversible processes,
Carnot cycle and Camot engine,
Carnot theorem and it’s corollaries,
Thermodynamic Temperature Scale,
PMM-II.
Entropy: Clausius inequality,
Concept of Entropy, Entropy change of pure substance in different thermodynamic processes, Tds equation, Principle of entropy increase,
T-s diagram, Statement of the third law of thermodynamics.
UNIT – 3: AVAILABILITY & IRREVERSIBILITY
Availability and Irreversibility: Available and unavailable energy, Availability and Irreversibility, Second law efficiency, Helmholtz & Gibb’s function.
Thermodynamic relations: Conditions for exact differentials. Maxwell relations, Clapeyron equation, Joule- Thompson coefficient and Inversion curve. Coefficient of volume expansion, Adiabatic and Isothermal compressibility.
UNIT – 4 : STEAM & RANKINE CYCLE
Pure substance,
Property of Pure Substance (steam),
Triple point, Critical point,
Saturation states, Sub-cooled liquid state,
Superheated vapour state, Phase transformation process of water,
Graphical representation of pressure,
volume and temperature, P-T, P-V and P-h diagrams,
I-S and H-S diagrams, use of property diagram,
Steam-Tables &Mollier chart,
Dryness factor and it’s measurement,
processes involving steam in closed and open systems.
Simple Rankine cycle.
Psychometric terms and their definitions,
Psychometric chart,
Different Psychometric processes and their representation on Psychometric chart.
UNIT – 5 : REFRIGERATION CYCLES
Reversed Carnot Cycle for gas and vapour.
Refrigeration capacity,
unit of refrigeration.
Air Refrigeration cycles;
Reversed Brayton Cycle and Bell Coleman Cycle.
Vapour compression refrigeration cycle;
simple saturated cycle and actual vapour compression refrigeration cycle.
Analysis of cycles, effect of superheating, sub-cooling and change in evaporator and condenser pressure on performance of vapour compression refrigeration cycle.
Refrigerants; their classification and desirable properties.
Vapour absorption refrigeration system.
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