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Engineering Thermodynamics 3-1-0: Code: Credit: 04 L-T-P

This document provides an overview of the course content for an engineering thermodynamics course. The course covers fundamental thermodynamic concepts including the first and second laws of thermodynamics, energy, entropy, and exergy. Key topics that will be examined are thermodynamic properties, temperature scales, the Carnot cycle, Maxwell's relations, and applications of thermodynamics to equipment like turbines, compressors, and pumps. Important reference books for the course are also listed.

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Engineering Thermodynamics 3-1-0: Code: Credit: 04 L-T-P

This document provides an overview of the course content for an engineering thermodynamics course. The course covers fundamental thermodynamic concepts including the first and second laws of thermodynamics, energy, entropy, and exergy. Key topics that will be examined are thermodynamic properties, temperature scales, the Carnot cycle, Maxwell's relations, and applications of thermodynamics to equipment like turbines, compressors, and pumps. Important reference books for the course are also listed.

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Credit: 04

Code: MET201 Engineering Thermodynamics L-T-P: (3-1-0)


Introduction: Introduction to the course, its application and utility; important
Course Content terms used in thermodynamics; thermodynamic properties; state postulate;
concept of temperature and absolute temperature.
Energy: Energy; Macroscopic and microscopic forms of energy; location of
energy; flow of energy.
First Law of Thermodynamics: Introduction – origin, importance and
application; statement of the law; corollaries of 1st law; application of first law
to closed systems and steady and unsteady flow open systems; application
of first law to equipments such as boiler, turbine, compressor, nozzle,
expander, pump and condenser.
Second Law of Thermodynamics: Introduction - origin, implications and
importance of the second law; statement of the law; reversible and
irreversible processes - definitions of reversible, irreversible, internally,
externally and totally reversible systems; causes of irreversibility; examples
of irreversibility. Corollaries of 2nd law - efficiency of a reversible and
irreversible engines; Carnot cycle, thermodynamic temperature scale.
Entropy: Clausius’s inequality and thermodynamic definition of entropy;
physical concept of entropy; flow of entropy; calculation of entropy for
reversible / irreversible closed systems and steady and unsteady flow open
systems; statistical definition of entropy.
Exergy: Its concept, origin and necessity; exergy of closed and open
systems; first law and second law efficiency.
Miscellaneous: Zeroth and Third Law of Thermodynamics: Introduction,
statement and necessity; Maxwell’s relations; Clapeyron equation; Joule-
Thomson effect; P-v-T surfaces for ideal and real gases.

1. Y. A. Cengel & M. A. Boles; Thermodynamics-An Engineering


Important Text Approach; McGraw-Hill Inc.
Books/References 2. P. K. Nag; Engineering Thermodynamics; Tata McGraw-Hill,
New Delhi.
3. G. Van Wylen, R. Sounting & C Borgnakke; Fundamentals of
Classical Thermodynamics; John Wiley & Sons/New Age
International, Delhi
4. J. P. Holman; Thermodynamics; McGraw-Hill Book Co. New Delhi.

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