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Course Code: MTPC13 Course Title: Metallurgical Thermodynamics Number of Credits 4 Prerequisites (Course Code) : Nil Course Type: PC

This document provides information on the Metallurgical Thermodynamics course offered at the National Institute of Technology. The 4 credit course introduces students to the basic principles and concepts of thermodynamics applied to metallurgy. Topics covered include the first, second, and third laws of thermodynamics, heat of reactions, entropy, Gibbs free energy, and thermodynamics of solutions and slags. The course aims to help students understand thermodynamics from both bulk and atomic perspectives and apply concepts to understand phase diagrams, transformations, and solutions. Students will also develop problem solving skills to analyze and improve industrial metallurgical processes.

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Course Code: MTPC13 Course Title: Metallurgical Thermodynamics Number of Credits 4 Prerequisites (Course Code) : Nil Course Type: PC

This document provides information on the Metallurgical Thermodynamics course offered at the National Institute of Technology. The 4 credit course introduces students to the basic principles and concepts of thermodynamics applied to metallurgy. Topics covered include the first, second, and third laws of thermodynamics, heat of reactions, entropy, Gibbs free energy, and thermodynamics of solutions and slags. The course aims to help students understand thermodynamics from both bulk and atomic perspectives and apply concepts to understand phase diagrams, transformations, and solutions. Students will also develop problem solving skills to analyze and improve industrial metallurgical processes.

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Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering,

National Institute of Technology: Tiruchirappalli – 620 015

Course Code : MTPC13


Course Title : Metallurgical Thermodynamics
Number of Credits 4
Prerequisites : Nil
(Course code)
Course Type : PC

Course Learning Objectives


To learn the basic principles and concepts of thermodynamics, in the domain of
metallurgy and materials; and to learn about equations and their applications; and to
appreciate that metallurgical thermodynamics is a knowledge base with abundant
applications
Course Content
Types of system, state of a system, state properties - First law of thermodynamics; heat
of reaction, heat of formation, standard heats, heat of transition; Hess’s law of heat
summation.
Second law, entropy of irreversible processes,combined statements of 1st and 2nd laws -
Maxwell's relations, Clausius - Clapeyron equation, Trouton’s rule, Gibb's - Helmholtz
relations.
Third law of thermodynamics, relation between CP and CV, Nernst heat theorem,
equilibrium constant, Van't Hoff equation, concept of fugacity, activity, mole fraction.
Thermodynamics of solutions, Gibb's Duhem equation, partial molar properties of
mixing, concept of chemical potential, ideal solution, Raoult's law,Henry's law; non ideal
solution, excess functions, regular solutions.
Sievert's law - residual gases in steel –properties and functions of slags, slag
compositions, structure of molten slags, molecular theory, concept of basicity index, ionic
theory; thermodynamics of slag-metal reactions.
Numerical problems on the concepts mentioned in all the above units.
Reference Books
1. Tupkary R.H., ‘Introduction to Metallurgical Thermodynamics’, 1 st Edition,
TU Publishers, Nagpur, 1995
2. Upadhyaya G.S., Dube R.K., ‘Problems in Metallurgical Thermodynamics
and Kinetics’, 1st Edition, Pergamon Press, 1977 Ghosh A, ‘Textbook of
Materials and Metallurgical Thermodynamics’, PHI EEE, 3rd Print, 2009.
3. Ahindra Ghosh, ‘Textbook of Materials and Metallurgical Thermodynamics’,
PHI Learning, 2002.
Course Outcomes
1. At the end of the course student will be able to:
Understand the basic laws of thermodynamics [1, 2]
2.
Understand the multiple approaches to thermodynamics, from the bulk property point
of view and from the atomistic point of view [1]
3.
Understand concepts such as the theory of solutions, free energy, entropy, criteria for
4. equilibrium and conditions for feasibility [1, 2]

Obtain the skill to use metallurgical thermodynamic concepts and equations for
understanding phase diagrams, phase transformations, theory of solutions [11, 5]
5. Obtain problem solving skills in order to improve / modify industrial processes, esp. In
extraction metallurgy, liquid metal treatment and in heat treatment [1, 2, 11, 8]

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