Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics Syllabus

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Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics Course

Thermodynamics is the study of the conversion of energy into work and heat and its relation to macroscopic variables such as temperature and pressure.

Its underpinnings, based upon statistical predictions of the collective motion of particles from their microscopic behavior, is the field of statistical thermodynamics, a branch of statistical mechanics.

Historically, thermodynamics developed out of need to increase the efficiency of early steam engines.

Basic Concepts

The terminologies of thermodynamics, the variables and quantities of thermodynamics, categorization of systems and processes. Energy classifications, point and path properties, energy in transition, heat and work, reversible and irreversible processes, phase rule.

First Law Of Thermodynamics

The first law and internal energy, statements of first law for the non flow and flow systems, enthalpy and heat capacity limitations of the first law.

Second Law Thermodynamics

Statements of the second law of thermodynamics, available and unavailable energies, The entropy function, applications of the second law.

Thermodynamic Formulations

Measurable quantities, basic energy relations, Maxwell relations, thermodynamic formulations to calculate enthalpy, internal energy and entropy as function of pressure and temperature, other formulations involving Cp and Cv, complex thermodynamic formulations, thermodynamic properties of an ideal gas, entropy change in reversible and irreversible process.

Thermodynamic Properties Of Real Gases

The PVT behavior of fluids, laws of corresponding states and equation of states approaches to the PVT relationships of non ideal gas problems, compressibility factors, generalised equations of state, property estimation via generalized equation of state , fugacity and fugacity coefficients of real gases.

Compression Of Fluids

Thermodynamic aspects of compression process,classification of compression processes, basic equation for change of state of gases, the work expression for different situations, the effect of clearance volume, multistage compression, convergent divergent flow, Ejectors.

Text Book for Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics

1. Smith, J.M., Van Ness, H.C., ” Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics “, Kogakushai 1976.

References for Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics

1. Hougen, O.A., Watson, K.M., and Ragatz, R.A., ” Chemical Process Principles Part II, Thermodynamics “, John Wiley 1970.
2. Dodge, B.F., ” Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics “, McGraw-Hill, 1960.
3. Sandler, S.I., ” Chemical and Engineering Thermodynamics 2nd edn. “, Wiley, 1989.
4. Kyle, B.G., ” Chemical and Process Thermodynamics 2nd edn. “, Prentice Hall of India Pvt.Ltd., 1990.

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