Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics

Course no: CHE F311

Dr. Anirban Roy

1st Semester 2017 2018

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGG.
BITS PILANI K. K. BIRLA GOA CAMPUS
Email : anirbanr@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Room : A301/11
VOIP : 245
Timings : email to confirm
 Gradings : Assignments

Project 10

Assignments 10

Attendance 10 ( L = 60%, T = 40%)

24/30 can easily be expected if approach is

disciplined !
 Outline

Open and closed systems

System and Surroundings

Units

Exact and Inexact differentials

Point function and Path function

 System & Surroundings : Control volume
Typical flowsheet of chilled water plant for HVAC systems identify heat flow in/out of the
system

Surroundings Mass out

Energy in

System Mass in

Energy out
System & Surroundings : Control volume
Units

Blast furnace gas pipe

3.3 metre diameter

Pressure unit used in

Tata Steel - mmWC

High pressure oxygen pipe 0.2

metre diameter

Pressure unit used in

Tata Steel kscg
 Units
Implication of wrong calculation near death
experience at VSP explosion of HP oxygen
pipeline 40 dead !

Problem : Convert 1000 mm WC (gauge

pressure) to mm HG to kPa to psi to psia

Solution:
1 mm WC = 0.073 mm Hg
1000 mm WC = 73 mm Hg
1 mm Hg = 0.1332 kPa
73 mm Hg = 9.72 kPa
1 kPa = 0.145 psi
9.72 kPa = 1.40 psi
Psia = Gauge + Absolute = 14.7 + 1.40 = 16.1 psia
 Temperature
The atmospheric temperature lapse rate is expressed as : Tatm = 288 - 6.5 103 z,
where z is the elevation in meters. How cold is it outside an airplane at 12,000 m
expressed in Kelvin and in Celsius?
For an elevation of z = 12 000 m we get

Tatm = 288 - 6.5 103 z = 210 K

To express that in degrees Celsius we get

TC = T 273.15 = 63.15oC

The temperature at which book paper burns = 451 F

Convert 451 F to Celcius 232 Celcius

Convert 232C to Kelvin Convert 505 Kelvin

Convert 505K to Kelvin 909 Rankine

Thank You