3rd Sem, IEM

18IM34: Basic Thermodynamics IEM Syllabus for BE 3rd Sem 2018 Scheme VTU

Basic Thermodynamics detailed Syllabus for Industrial Engineering & Management (IEM), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Subject Names, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information do visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.

For all other VTU IEM 3rd Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme, do visit VTU IEM 3rd Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme Subjects. The detailed Syllabus for basic thermodynamics is as follows.

Course Learning Objectives:

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Module-1

Fundamental Concepts & Definition: Thermodynamics definition and scope. Microscopic and Macroscopic approaches. Some practical applications of engineering thermodynamic systems. Characteristics of system boundary and control surface, examples. Thermodynamic properties: definition and units. Intensive and extensive properties. Thermodynamic equilibrium: definition. Mechanical equilibrium, diathermic wall, thermal equilibrium, chemical equilibrium, Zeroth law of thermodynamics. Temperature: concepts, scales, fixed points and measurements. (Liquid in glass capillary, Electrical Resistance Thermometer, Thermocouples, Constant Volume Gas Thermometer, and constant Pressure gas thermometer only are included). Numerical problems on temperature scale. Heat and work: Heat, Characteristics of heat, Sign Convention and units for heat, Work transfer, Thermodynamic definition of work, Characteristic of work, sign convention and unis for work. Classification of work, Mechanical form of work, Moving boundary work or Displacement work, Prove work is a path function, expression of Displacement work for Different Quasi- static processes by representing on a p-V diagrams. Numerical problems. (work done in starching a wire, work associated with stretching of a liquid film, electric work due to current flow, Magnetic work due change in magnetization of a substance explanation and problems are not included).

Module-2

First Law of Thermodynamics: Joules experiments, equivalence of heat and work.Statement of the first law of thermodynamics, extension of the First law to cyclic processes, energy, energy as a property, modes of energy, pure substance: definition, two-property rule. Specific heat at constant volume, enthalpy, specific heat at constant pressure and numerical problems. APPLICATION OF FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS: Extension of the first law to control volume: Steady state- steady flow energy equation, important applications, and numerical problems steady flow systems. (Analysis of unsteady processes such as film and evacuation of vessels with and without heat transfer, and numerical problems of unsteady processes is not included).

Module-3

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Module-4

Pure Substances: Introduction, Property diagrams for simple compressible substance, T-v, p-v and p-T diagrams. Definition of Various important thermodynamic states of a pure substance,

  1. Compressed liquid state or sub- cooled liquid state,
  2. Saturated liquid state,
  3. Wet vapour state,
  4. Dry vapour or saturated vapour state,
  5. Superheated vapour state,
  6. Saturated temperature or boiling point temperature,
  7. Saturated pressure or boiling pressure and
  8. critical point.

Dryness fraction of a wet vapour. Steam tables, T-s and h-s Diagrams for a pure substance, p-h Diagrams for a pure substance. Determination of dryness fraction of steam in a laboratory, Separating calorimeter method, Throttling calorimeter, Combined separating -throttling calorimeter method, problems to find properties of pure substances.

Module-5

Ideal Gases and Mixture of Ideal Gases: Definition af an Ideal Gas, Mole of a Gas, Avegadro’s Hypothesis, Specific heats of Ideal Gases, Changes in Internal energy, enthalpy for an ideal gas, expressions for heat and work transfer for a perfect gas undergoing various quasi-static processes, problems on ideal gases, Mixture of Ideal gases Introduction, Definition of terms used in the analysis of mixture of gases, Dalton’s law of partial pressure, Relation between Partial pressure, Partial Volume, and Mole Fraction, Gas constant and Molecular weight for the mixture in terms of mass fraction, Gas constant and Molecular Weight of the Mixture in Terms of Mole Fraction, Internal Energy, Enthalpy and Entropy of a Mixture of Gases. Problems on Mixture of Ideal Gases.

Course Outcomes:

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Text Books:

  1. Basic Engineering Thermodynamics. A. Venkatesh, Universities Press. 2008
  2. Basic and Applied Thermodynamics. P.K. Nag, 2nd. Ed., Tata McGraw Hill Pub.2002
  3. Thermal Engineering, R.K. Rajput, Laxmi Publication.
  4. Basic Thermodynamics. T. R. Seetharam, Second Edition, InterlinePublishing, 2007

Reference Books:

  1. Thermodynamics. An Engineering Approach, Yunus A. Cenegal, and Michael A Boles, Tata McGraw Hill publications. 2002.
  2. Engineering Thermodynamics. J. B. Jones and G.A. Hawkins. John Wiley and Sons.
  3. Fundamentals of Classical Thermodynamics. G. J. Van Wylen and R. E. Sonnatag, Wiley Eastern.
  4. An Introduction to Thermodynamics. Y.V.C. Rao, Wiley Eastern. 1993.
  5. Basic Thermodynamics, B.K. Vekanna, Swati B. Wadavadagi, PHI, New Delhi. 2010

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