PESIT BANGALORE SOUTH CAMPUS

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Course Outline
Subject : BASIC THERMODYNAMICS Subject code: 10ME33
Faculty name : Mr. DANDAPANI
Total No. of Lecture hrs: 48 No. of Lecture hrs/week: 04
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Fundamental Concepts & Definitions:
Thermodynamics; definition and scope. Microscopic
and Macroscopic approaches. Engineering
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Thermodynamics Definition, some practical
applications of engineering thermodynamic, System
(closed system) and Control Volume (open system);
Characteristics of system boundary and control surface,
Unit – I
2 examples. Thermodynamic properties-definition and
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units, intensive and extensive properties.
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Thermodynamic state, state point, state diagram, path
and process, quasi-static process, cyclic and non-cyclic
3 processes. Thermodynamic equilibrium; definition,
mechanical equilibrium; Diathermic wall, thermal
equilibrium, chemical equilibrium
Zeroth law of thermodynamics, Temperature; concepts
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Scales, measurement. Internal fixed points,
5 Numerical problems
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6 Numerical problems
Work & Heat: Mechanics, definition of work and its
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limitations. Thermodynamic definition of work;
Examples, sign convention. Displacement work; at part
8 Unit – II
of a system boundary, at whole of a system boundary,
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expressions for displacement work in various processes
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through p-v diagrams
10 Shaft work; Electrical work. Other types of work
Heat; definition, units and sign convention, what heat is
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not, Numerical problems
12 Numerical Problems
First Law of Thermodynamics: Joule’s experiments,
equivalence of heat and work. Statement of the First
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law of thermodynamics, extension of the First law to
Unit – III
non -cyclic processes
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energy, energy as a property, modes of energy, pure
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substance; definition, two-property rule,
Specific heat at constant volume, enthalpy, specific
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heat at constant pressure. Extension of
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problems
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17 such as filling and evacuation of vessels with and
without heat transfer.
18 T1Page.No. 63 Numerical problems
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Unit – IV Second Law of Thermodynamics: Devices converting
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 PESIT BANGALORE SOUTH CAMPUS
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Course Outline
Subject : BASIC THERMODYNAMICS Subject code: 10ME33
Faculty name : Mr. DANDAPANI
Total No. of Lecture hrs: 48 No. of Lecture hrs/week: 04
R1Page.No.279- 331 mechanical cycle. Thermal reservoir. Direct heat 15 55
engine;
Schematic representation and efficiency. Devices
converting
21 work to heat in a thermodynamic cycle; reversed heat
engine, schematic representation

Coefficients of performance. Kelvin -Planck statement

22 of the Second law of Thermodynamic; PMM I and
PMM1I.
Clasiu's statement .of Second law of Thermodynamic;
23 Equivalence of the two statements; Reversible and
irreversible processes
Factors that make a process .irreversible, reversible
24 heat engines, Carnot cycle, Carnot principles,
Thermodynamic temperature scale
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Entropy: Clasius inequality; statement, proof,
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application to a reversible cycle
QR/T as independent of the path. Entropy; definition, a
28 Unit – V
property, principle of increase of entropy
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Entropy as a quantitative test for irreversibility,
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calculation of entropy using Tds relations 12.5 67.5
Entropy as a coordinate. Available and unavailable
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energy.
31 T1Page.No.152- 214 Numerical problems
32 Numerical problems
Pure substances: P-T and P-V diagrams, triple point
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and critical points
Sub- cooled liquid, saturated liquid, mixture of
saturated liquid
34 and vapor, saturated vapor and superheated vapour
Unit – VI
states of a pure substance with water as example
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Enthalpy of change of phase (Latent heat). Dryness
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35 factor (quality), T-S and h-s diagrams, representation
of various processes on these diagrams
Steam tables and its use. Throttling calorimeter,
36 separating and
throttling calorimeter.
37 T1Page.No.279- 328 Numerical problems
38 Numerical problems
Thermodynamic relations: Maxwell relation,
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Unit – VII Clausius Clayperon's equation.
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R1Page.No.651- 709 change in internal energy.
41 internal energy and enthalpy as functions of
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 PESIT BANGALORE SOUTH CAMPUS
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Course Outline
Subject : BASIC THERMODYNAMICS Subject code: 10ME33
Faculty name : Mr. DANDAPANI
Total No. of Lecture hrs: 48 No. of Lecture hrs/week: 04
temperature only, universal and particular gas
constants, specific heats, perfect and semi-perfect
gases.
42 Enthalpy and entropy in various quasi-static processes.
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Ideal gas mixture : Ideal gas mixture; Dalton's laws of

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partial pressures
Amagat's law of additive volumes, evaluation of
properties
Analysis of various processes.
Unit –VIII
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R1Page.No.681- 709 compressibility chart. 10 100
Real Gases: Introduction. Van-der Waal's Equation of
46 state, Van-der Waal's constants in terms of critical
properties,
Law of corresponding states, compressibility factor;
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compressibility chart.
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TEXTBOOKS:
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1. Basic and Applied Thermodynamics, P.K.Nag, 2 Ed., Tata McGrawHill Pub. 2002

2. Basic Engineering Thermodynamics, Dr. A.Venkatesh, Universities Press, 2008

REFERENCE BOOKS:

1. Thermodynamics, An Engineering Approach, Yunus A.Cenegal and Michael A.Boles,

Tata McGraw Hill publications, 2002
2. Fundamentals of Classical Thermodynamics, G.J.Van Wylen and R.E.Sonntag, Wiley
Eastern.
3. Engineering Thermodynamics, J.B.Jones and G.A.Hawkins, John Wiley and Sons.
4. An Introduction to Thermodynamcis, Y.V.C.Rao, Wiley Eastern, 1993,

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