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Thermodynamics (ME-302) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Basic Concepts & Laws of Thermodynamics

  • Basic concepts: Property
  • Equilibrium
  • State
  • Process
  • Cycle
  • Zeroth law of thermodynamics
  • Heat and work transfer
  • First law of thermodynamics- first law applied to various systems steady flow process
  • limitations of first law of thermodynamics
  • Second law of thermodynamics
  • heat engine
  • heat reservoir
  • Refrigerator
  • heat pump
  • Carnot's cycle
  • statements of second law Reversible and irreversible processes
  • consequence of second law
  • Clausious Inequality
  • Entropy
  • T-S diagrams
  • Available & Unavailable energy Availability Concept
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Unit 2

Properties of Steam

  • Pure Substance
  • Phase
  • Phase-transformations
  • formation of steam
  • properties of steam
  • PVT surface
  • HS,TS,PV,PH,TV diagram
  • processes of vapor measurement of dryness fraction
  • Use of steam tables and Mollier chart
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Unit 3

Air standard cycles

  • Carnot, Otto, Diesel, Dual cycles and their comparison
  • Brayton cycle
  • Non reactive gas mixture
  • PVT relationship
  • mixture of ideal gases
  • properties of mixture of ideal gases
  • internal energy
  • Enthalpy and specific heat of gas mixtures
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Unit 4

Fuels & combustion

  • Actual & theoretical Combustion processes
  • Enthalpy of formation & enthalpy of reaction
  • first law analysis of reacting systems
  • Adiabatic flame temperature
  • Basic concept of Third Law of thermodynamics

Reference Books

  • Engineering Thermodynamics — P.K.Nag — Mc Graw Hills — Fifth Edition
  • Thermodynamics — Cengel Y — MC Graw Hills — Eight Edition
  • Thermodynamics for Engineers — Kross, Potter — CENGAGE Learning
  • Principles of Engineering Thermodynamics — Moran, Shapiro, Boettner — Wiley student edition
  • Engineering Thermodynamics — P Chattopadhya — OXFORD University Press — Second Edition
  • Heat & Thermodynamics — Zemansky — Mc Graw Hills India Education — Eight Edition
  • Engineering Thermodynamics — Achuthan M — PHI India
  • Applied Thermodynamics — R Yadav — Central Publishing house Allahabad
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