Exergy Analysis of Thermal Systems
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The official GTU curriculum for Exergy Analysis of Thermal Systems (subject code ME02000581) as prescribed for EE · Semester 2 divides the course into 5 units, covering 30 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 (ME02000581)Unit 1 Exergy Destruction
- Lost available work referred to heat engine cycle
- refrigeration cycle
- heat pump cycle
- non-flow and steady flow processes
- exergy concept for closed and open systems
- mechanism of exergy destruction
- modified Gouy-Stodola theorem
- concept of effective temperature Program Name: Master of Engineering Level: PG Subject Code : ME02000581 Subject Name: Exergy Analysis of Thermal Systems
Unit 2 Exergy Analysis of Simple Processes
- Mixing and separation process of fluids of different temperature
- heat transfer across a temperature difference
- expansion and compression process
- combustion process
Unit 3 Exergy Analysis of Power Plant Cycles
- Maximum power subject to size constraint with fixed heat input and its application to Brayton cycle
- Steam turbine power plants: External and internal irreversibility
- vacuum condenser
- regenerative feed water heating
- combined feed water heating and reheating
- Gas turbine power plant: External and internal irreversibility
- reheater, and intercooler
- combined steam and gas turbine power plant
Unit 4 Exergy analysis of Refrigeration cycle
- Joule-Thomson Expansion
- Work-Producing Expansion
- Brayton Cycle
- Optimal Intermediate Cooling
- Exergy analysis of Air-conditioning applications: Mixtures of air and water vapor
- total flow exergy of humid air and liquid water
- Evaporative cooling process and other aspects
Unit 5 Exergy-economic Analysis
- Fundamental of exergy-economics
- exergy costing of different thermal components and systems like steam or gas turbine
- cogeneration system etc