Applied Thermodynamics

Tutorials - 2 & 3, Entropy change of a control volume, Work interaction of internally reversible steady flow processes

• Exergy of a system
• Derivation of exergy of system, exergy transfer and exergy change
• Exergy transfer and exergy change for system and control volume
• Worked examples on exergy transfer and exergy change of system
• Worked examples on exergy transfer and exergy change of control volumes
• Tutorial - 4, Exergy transfer and exergy change of a system

Tutorials - 5 & 6, Exergy transfer and exergy change of a system and control volume

• Thermodynamic cycle –Rankine cycle
• Open feed water heater in Rankine cycle
• Closed feed water heater and supercritical Rankine cycle
• Air standard cycle- Basic Brayton cycle
• Worked examples on basic Brayton cycle
• Brayton cycle with intercooling and Reheat.

• Worked example on Brayton cycle with intercooling and reheat
• Brayton cycle with reheat, regeneration and intercooling.
• Air standard Otto cycle and worked example of air standard Otto cycle.
• Air standard Diesel cycle
• Worked example of air standard Diesel cycle
• Ideal vapour compression refrigeration cycle and worked example

• Psychrometry – Introduction, Moist air
• Worked examples on moist air.
• Application of first law to psychrometric process and worked examples.
• Wet bulb and adiabatic saturation temperature and worked examples.
• Tutorial – 7, Psychrometry

• Air conditioning process, Psychrometric chart
• Worked example on a psychrometric chart
• Adiabatic mixing of two streams, cooling tower
• Tutorials – 8 & 9, Air conditioning process, Psychrometric chart

• Combustion Thermodynamics - Stoichiometry, excess air
• Enthalpy of formation and sensible enthalpy
• Tutorials – 10 & 11, Stoichiometry, enthalpy of formation, sensible enthalpy

• Enthalpy of combustion and calorific value and worked examples.
• The adiabatic flame temperature and entropy generation in combustion
• Tutorials – 12 & 13, Enthalpy of combustion, adiabatic flame Temperature and entropy generation in combustion

• Compressible flow through nozzles - Compressibility and compressible flow
• Governing equation, acoustic wave propagation speed
• Mach number, sonic and stagnation state
• Illustration of states in the T-s and P-v diagram
• Normal shock waves, Illustration of normal shock solution in the T-s and P-v diagram
• Worked example on shock wave
• Tutorial - 14, Normal shock waves

• Quasi one dimensional analysis, choked flow
• Flow through a convergent nozzle
• Flow through a convergent-divergent nozzle
• Worked example on convergent-divergent nozzle
• Flow of steam through nozzles
• Worked example on the flow of steam through nozzles