Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics & Kinetics
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The official GTU curriculum for Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics & Kinetics (subject code 2163611) as prescribed for Chem. Tech. · Semester 6 divides the course into 6 units, covering 79 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 (2163611)Unit 1 Introduction
- Conservation of energy and first law of thermodynamics
- application to steady state flow process
- internal energy
- equilibrium state
- phase rule
- irreversible vs. reversible process
- heat capacity and specific heat
Unit 2 Properties of pure substances
- PVT behavior of pure substances
- ideal and non-ideal gases
- equation of states
- Van der Waals
- Redlich kwong equation
- RKS equation
- PR equation
- Berthelot equation etc.
- Calculation of constants in terms of Pc, Tc, Vc, condition to be satisfied by any equation of state
- reduced forms of equations of state
- principles of corresponding states
Unit 3 Second Law of thermodynamics
- Second law of thermodynamics
- Thermodynamic temperature scale
- Ideal gas temperature scale
- Concept of entropy
- entropy change and irreversibility
- Introduction to third law of thermodynamics
Unit 4 Thermodynamic properties of fluids
- Network of thermodynamic equations
- mathematical relations among thermodynamic functions
- Maxwell relations
- Interrelations between H, S, G, E, Cp, Cv, etc. in terms of PVT relations (exhaustive treatment)
- Thermodynamic properties of single phase and two phase systems
- Effect of temperature and pressure
- on various properties and their evaluations
- Types of thermodynamic diagrams
- generalized correlations of thermodynamics properties of ideal gas mixtures
- Residual properties
- Partial Molar properties
- Mathematical model for the chemical potential
- Ideal and non-ideal solutions
- Pure component fugacity
- Fugacity coefficient and its evaluation
- Effect of Pressure and Temperature on Fugacity
- Fugacity of mixtures
- Gibb’s Duhemn Theorem
- Composition in phase equilibrium
- Excess properties of mixtures
Unit 5 Phase Equilibrium
- Criteria of Phase equilibrium
- Duhemn theorem
- VL Equilibrium idealization
- Phase diagram for miscible systems
- Immiscible systems
- Partial miscible systems
- Testing of VLE data
- Gibbs Duhemn Equation
- Van Laar equation
- Margules equation
- Evaluation of various constants
- Excess properties of mixtures
- Qualitative treatment for phase behavior at low pressures
- Qualitative treatment for phase behavior at high pressures
- V-L equilibrium of ideal and non-ideal solutions
- Henry's Law, Raoult's Law, Positive and negative deviations
- Constructions of various diagram from data
- Quantitative treatment for phase behavior at high pressures
- Evaluation of K and construction of K-charts
- Non ideal system
- Evaluations of activity coefficient and fugacity coefficient
- Dew point and bubble point calculations
- BUBLT and DEWT calculations
- P-T Flash calculations
- Adiabatic Flash calculations
- Block diagrams of these calculations
Unit 6 Chemical Reaction Equilibria
- Criteria of chemical reaction equilibrium
- Equilibrium extent of reaction
- Equilibrium constant
- Effect of temperature and pressure on K, Evaluation of K by various methods
- Evaluation of equilibrium extent of reaction for exothermic
- irreversible reactions and various combinations
- Thermodynamic analysis of some important industrial reactions
- Liquid phase and heterogeneous reactions
- Adiabatic reactions
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