Unit 1 INTRODUCTION AND FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS

9 lecture hours

• The scope of thermodynamics
• Dimensions and units
• Measures of amount or size
• heat, etc
• Internal Energy
• The first law of thermodynamics
• Thermodynamic state
• state functions
• Energy balance for closed systems
• The Phase rule
• The reversible process
• Heat capacity
• Application of first law of thermodynamics to steady state flow process

Unit 2 VOLUMETRIC PROPERTIES OF PURE FLUIDS

9 lecture hours

• PVT behavior of pure substances
• Ideal and non-ideal gases
• Equation of states
• Vanderwaals EOS, Redlich/Kwong (RK) EOS etc.
• Calculation of constants in terms of Pc, Tc, Vc
• Generalized Correlations for gases and liquids

Unit 3 HEAT EFFECTS

6 lecture hours

• Sensible heat effects
• Temperature dependence of the heat capacity
• Latent heats of pure substances
• Approximate methods for the estimation of the latent heat of vaporization
• Standard heat of reaction
• Standard heat of formation
• Standard heat of combustion
• Temperature Dependence of ΔH⁰
• Heat effects of Industrial Reactions

Unit 4 SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS

6 lecture hours

• Statements of second law of thermodynamics
• Heat engines
• Thermodynamic Temperature Scales
• Concept of entropy
• Entropy changes of an Ideal Gas, Third law of thermodynamics

Unit 5 THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS

• The fundamental property relations for homogeneous phases
• Maxwell’s equations
• Residual properties
• Mathematical relations among thermodynamic properties
• Two phase systems
• Thermodynamic diagrams. 5 Subject Code: 3130507 w.e.f