Course Content & Lecture Distribution

ME-1100 Thermodynamics: Detailed Syllabus
 

• Fundamentals 

  • System & Control volume

  • Property, State & Process

  • Exact & Inexact differentials

• Work 

  • Thermodynamic definition of work; examples

  • Displacement work

  • Path dependence of displacement work and illustrations for simple processes

  • Other forms of work - electrical, spring and shaft

• Temperature 

  • Definition of thermal equilibrium and Zeroth law

  • Temperature scales

  • Various Thermometers

• Heat

  • Definition; examples of heat/work interaction in systems

• First Law 

  • Cyclic & Non-cyclic processes

  • Concept of total energy E

  • Demonstration that E is a property

  • Various modes of energy

  • Pure substance

• Ideal Gases and ideal gas mixtures 

  • Ideal gas equation

  • Mixture of ideal gases

• Properties of two phase systems 

  • Const. temperature and Const. pressure heating of water

  • Definitions of saturated states

  • P-v-T surface

  • Use of steam tables and R134a tables

    • Saturation tables; Superheated tables

    • Identification of states & determination of properties

• First Law for Flow Processes 

  • Derivation of general energy equation for a control volume

  • Steady state steady flow processes including throttling

  • Examples of steady flow devices

  • Unsteady processes

• Second law  

  • Definitions of direct and reverse heat engines

  • Definitions of thermal efficiency and COP

  • Kelvin-Planck and Clausius statements

  • Definition of reversible process

  • Internal and external irreversibilities

  • Carnot cycle

  • Absolute temperature scale

• Entropy  

  • Clausius inequality

  • Definition of entropy S

  • Demonstration that entropy S is a property

  • Evaluation of DS for solids, liquids, ideal gases and ideal gas mixtures undergoing various processes

  • Determination of s from steam tables

  • Principle of increase of entropy

  • Illustration of processes in T-s coordinates

  • Definition of Isentropic efficiency for compressors, turbines and nozzles

• Thermodynamic cycles  

  • Basic Rankine cycle

  • Basic Brayton cycle

  • Basic vapor compression cycle

Textbook:

Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, Michael J. Moran, Howard N. Shapiro, Daisie D. Boettner and Margaret B. Bailey, Wiley, 7th edition