Unit 1 Exergy Destruction

5 lecture hours

• Lost available work referred to heat engine cycle
• refrigeration cycle
• heat pump cycle
• non flow and steady flow processes
• Mechanism of exergy destruction
• modified Gouy-Stodola theorem
• concept of effective temperature

Unit 2 Exergy Analysis of Simple Processes

9 lecture hours

• 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

14 lecture hours

• 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

6 lecture hours

• Joule-Thomson Expansion
• Work-Producing Expansion
• Brayton Cycle
• Optimal Intermediate Cooling
• Exergy analysis of Air-conditioning applications: Mixtures of air and water vapour
• total flow exergy of humid air & liquid water
• Evaporative cooling process and other aspects

Unit 5 Exergy-economic Analysis

8 lecture hours

• Fundamental of exergy-economics
• exergy costing of different thermal components: steam or gas turbine
• cogeneration system References: 1
• Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics by Adrian Bejan
• John Wiley & Sons
• The Exergy Method of Thermal Plant Analysis by T J Kotas
• Krieger Publishing Company 3
• Thermal Design and Optimization by Adrian Bejan
• George Tsatsaronis
• Michael Moran
• Advance Thermodynamics for Engineers by Winterbore D E, Arnold Publication 5
• Advanced Thermodynamics for Engineers by Kenneth Wark
• McGraw Hill Publishing Co

Unit 6 Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics by Michel J Moran, Howard N Shapiro, Daisie D Boettner,

• Margaret B Bailey
• John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Course Learning Outcome: After successful completion of the course
• the student will be able to:  Acquire an overview of exergy analysis of thermal components  Able to compute exergy analysis of different processes and power and refrigeration cycles  Calculate exergy-economics costing of thermal components Term Work:  Visit any thermal power plant
• obtain the sample data and compute exergy destruction of various component and of the plant  Visit any refrigeration plant
• obtain the sample data and compute exergy destruction of various component and of the plant List of Open Source Software/learning website:  Students can refer to video lectures available on the websites including NPTEL.  Students can refer to the CDs which are available with some reference books for the solution of problems using software/spreadsheets
• Review Presentation (RP): The concerned faculty member shall provide the list of peer reviewed Journals and Tier-I and Tier-II Conferences relating to the subject (or relating to the area of thesis for seminar) to the students in the beginning of the semester
• The same list will be uploaded on GTU website during the first two weeks of the start of the semester
• Every student or a group of students shall critically study 2 papers
• integrate the details and make presentation in the last two weeks of the semester
• The GTU marks entry portal will allow entry of marks only after uploading of the best 3 presentations
• A unique id number will be generated only after uploading the presentations
• Thereafter the entry of marks will be allowed
• The best 3 presentations of each college will be uploaded on GTU website