Basic Engineering Thermodynamics
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Basic Engineering Thermodynamics Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Basic Engineering Thermodynamics (subject code 2140106) as prescribed for Aero · Semester 4 divides the course into 7 units, covering 55 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2140106)Unit 1 Basic Concept of Thermodynamics
- Thermodynamic system & classification
- Properties of substance( like pressure
- Various forms of energy (like static energy
- kinetic energy
- potential energy
- internal energy
- enthalpy etc..)
- Concept of enthalpy and entropy
- Thermodynamic equilibrium
- concept of process and cycles
- Quasi- static process
- Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
Unit 2 First law of thermodynamics
- Joule’s experiment-set up & Significance
- Law of conservation of energy
- First Law of Thermodynamics
- its limitations & Application
- Energy equation & its application to: i
- Non flow process. ii
- Open system. iii
- Steady flow (Steady flow energy equation –SFEE) Numerical based on SFEE
Unit 3 Second law of Thermodynamics
- Concept heat source
- heat sink (reservoir)
- heat engine
- heat pump and refrigerator
- Second law of Thermodynamics Kelvin Planck & Claudius statements
- Refrigerator & heat pump
- Concept of thermal efficiency and COP (Coefficient of Performance)
- Concept of Reversible and irreversible processes
- Numerical examples based on heat engine
- Third law of thermodynamics
Unit 4 Availability, Irreversibility & Thermodynamic Relations
- Available and unavailable energy
- Availability and Irreversibility
- Maxwell’s equation Helmholtz &Gib’s function
- Clausius- Claperyon equation
- Joule-Thomson coefficient
Unit 5 Properties of gases
- Concept of gas & vapor
- Gas laws
- Boyle's law, Charle's law, 8 15 Combined gas law, Gas constant
- Relation between Cp and Cv, Various non-flow processes like constant volume process
- constant pressure process
- Isothermal process
- Adiabatic process
- Poly-tropic process
- Numerical based on different processes
Unit 6 Vapor power Cycles
- Concept of vapor and gas cycles
- Vapor cycles: Carnot vapor cycle
- Rankine cycle
- comparison of Carnot and Rankine cycle
- calculation of cycle efficiencies
- variables affecting efficiency of Rankine cycle
Unit 7 Gas power Cycles
- Concept of air standard efficiency .Carnot gas cycle
- Diesel & Dual Combustion cycles
- Atkinson Cycle
- Brayton Cycle : Representation on P-V & T-s diagram
- derivation for an air standard efficiency & simple examples based on it
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