4th Sem, Petro

Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics Petro 4th Sem Syllabus for VTU BE 2017 Scheme

Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics detail syllabus for Petroleum Engineering (Petro), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17CH43), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.

For all other petro 4th sem syllabus for be 2017 scheme vtu you can visit Petro 4th Sem syllabus for BE 2017 Scheme VTU Subjects. The detail syllabus for chemical engineering thermodynamics is as follows.

Course Objectives:

  • The students will Learn fundamentals of thermodynamics such as types of properties, processes and laws of thermodynamics for flow and non flow process.
  • Understand the clear concepts on P-V-T behavior, Equations of state, thermodynamic diagrams and compressibility cha]rts, entropy, irreversibility and problem solving skills.
  • Learn the thermodynamic properties of pure fluids, energy relations and fugacity concepts.
  • Study the estimation of partial molar properties, property changes of mixing, and ideal and non ideal solutions.
  • Learn the fundamentals of phase equilibrium, concept of chemical potential and generation and consistency check for VLE data.
  • Understand fundamentals of chemical reaction equilibrium to find feasibility and extent of conversion for the industrial reactions.

Module 1
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Module 2

P-V-T BEHAVIOUR: P-V-T behavior of pure fluids, Equations of state and ideal gas law, Processes involving ideal gas law: Constant volume, constant pressure, constant temperature, adiabatic and polytropic processes. Equation of state for real gases: Vander Waals equation, Redlich – Kwong equation, Peng – Robinson equation, Virial equation, Compressibili ty charts: Principles of corresponding states, generalized compressibility charts.
SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS:General statements of the Second law, Concept of Entropy, the Carnot Principle, calculation of entropy changes, Clausius Inequality, Entropy and Irreversibility, Third law of Thermodynamics.

Module 3

THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF PURE FLUIDS: Reference Properties, Energy Properties, Derived Properties, Work function, Gibbs free energy, Relationships among thermodynamic properties, Exact differential equations, Fundamental property relations, Maxwell’s equations, Clapeyron equations, Entropy heat capacity relations, Modified equations for U & H, Effect of temperature on U, H & S, Relationships between Cp& Cy, Gibbs-Helmholtz equation, Fugacity, Fugacity coefficient, Effect of temperature and pressure on Fugacity, Determination of Fugacity of pure gases, Fugacities of solids and liquids, Activity, Effect of temperature and pressure on activity, Thermodynamic diagrams

Module 4
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Module 5

PHASE EQUILIBRIA:Criteria of phase Equilibria, Criterion of stability, Duhem’s theorem, Vapor – Liquid Equilibria, VLE in ideal solutions, NonIdeal solutions, VLE at low pressures, VLE at high pressures, consistency test for VLE data, Calculation of Activity coefficients using Gibbs – Duhem’s equation. CHEMICAL REACTION EQUILIBRIUM: Reaction Stoichiometry, Criteria of chemical reaction equilibrium, Equilibrium constant and standard free energy change, Effect of temperature, Pressure on equilibrium constants and other factors affecting equilibrium conversion, Liquid phase reactions, heterogeneous reaction equilibrium, phase rule for reacting systems.

Course Outcomes:

The students are expected to do the following

  1. Calculate the heat and work requirements for the given flow or non-flow processes.
  2. Analyze and find properties such as Pressure, Volume and temperature for equations of states and form the fundamentals of first law of thermodynamics.
  3. Calculate entropy for the processes, and various types of energies such as internal energy, enthalpy, Helmholtz free energy and Gibbs free energy.
  4. Differentiate between ideal and non-ideal solution and estimate partial molar properties.
  5. Generate Vapor Liquid Equilibrium data for ideal and non-ideal solutions and check for their consistency by various methods.
  6. Find the feasibility and extent of conversion for any reaction

Graduate Attributes (as per NBA):

  • Problem analysis.
  • Design/development of solutions.

Question paper pattern:

  • The question paper will have ten questions.
  • Each full Question consisting of 20 marks
  • There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions) from each module.
  • Each full question will have sub questions covering all the topics under a module.
  • The students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
  • Note: Use of steam tables permitted in examination and internal assessment test.

Text Books:

  1. Smith J.M. and Vanness H.C., Introduction to Chemi cal Engineering Thermodynamics, 5 th edn., McGraw Hill, New York, 1996
  2. Rao Y.V.C., Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, New age International Publication, Nagpur, 2000

Reference Books:

  1. Narayanan K.V., Text book of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, Prentice Hall of India Private Limited, New Delhi, 2001.

For detail syllabus of all other subjects of BE Petro, 2017 scheme do visit Petro 4th Sem syllabus for 2017 scheme.

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