Unit 1 Basic Concepts

5 lecture hours

• Microscopic & macroscopic point of view
• Thermodynamic system and control volume
• Thermodynamic properties
• processes and cycles
• Thermodynamic equilibrium
• Quasi-static process
• pure substance
• vapour- liquid-solid phase in a pure substance
• critical and triple point of pure substance

Unit 2 First law of Thermodynamics

5 lecture hours

• First law for a closed system undergoing a cycle and change of state
• Energy-A property of the system
• Perpetual motion machine of the first kind
• steady flow energy equation applied to nozzle
• heat exchanger
• throttling process

Unit 3 Second law of thermodynamics & Entropy

8 lecture hours

• Limitations of first law of thermodynamics
• Kelvin-Planck and Clausius statements and their equivalence
• Perpetual motion machine of the second kind
• carnot cycle
• carnot’s theorem
• corollary of carnot theorem
• thermodynamic temperature scale
• Clausius theorem
• the property of entropy
• inequality of Clausius
• entropy change in a open system
• reversible and irreversible process
• principle of increase of entropy
• Third law of thermodynamics
• Entropy and disorder
• concept of exergy

Unit 4 Vapour & Gas Power cycles

• Carnot cycle
• Rankine cycle
• comparison of carnot and rankine cycle
• modified rankine cycle
• calculation of cycle efficiencies
• variables affecting efficiency of rankine cycle
• atkinson and brayton cycle
• Comparison of otto
• diesel and dual cycles
• calculation of air standard efficiencies
• mean effective pressure
• brake thermal efficiencies
• relative efficiencies of I.C. engine. 12 Subject Code: 3142004 w.e.f