PE3402 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics Syllabus:

PE3402 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021

OBJECTIVE:

 To enable the students to learn PVT behaviour of fluids, laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic property relations and their application to fluid flow, power generation and refrigeration processes.

UNIT I

Scope of thermodynamics, basic concepts and definitions, Equilibrium state and phase rule, Energy, Work, Temperature and Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics, reversible and irreversible process, Ideal gas- Equation of State involving ideal and real gas, Law of corresponding states, Compressibility chart, First Law of Thermodynamics and its consequences.

UNIT II

Joule’s experiment, internal energy, enthalpy, Application of first Law of Thermodynamics for Flow and non flow processes. Limitations of the first Law , statements of second Law of Thermodynamics and its Applications ,Heat Engine, Heat Pump/Refrigerator, Carnot cycle and Carnot theorem, Thermodynamic Temperature scale, Entropy , Clausius inequality, Third law of thermodynamics.

UNIT III

Refrigeration and liquefaction process, Thermodynamic Potentials, thermodynamic correlation, Maxwell relations, criteria for Equilibria and stability. Clapeyron equation

UNIT IV

Partial molar properties, ideal and non-ideal solutions, standard states definition and choice, Gibbs-Duhem equation, activity and property change of mixing, excess properties of mixtures.

UNIT V

Activity coefficient-composition models, thermodynamic consistency of phase equilibria, ChemicalReaction equilibria, Extent of reaction, equilibrium constant and standard free energy change

TOTAL: 60 PERIODS

OUTCOME:

On the completion of the course students are expected to
CO1: Understand the fundamental concepts of thermodynamics and its related functions
CO2: Apply second law and analyse the feasibility of system/devices
CO3: Analyze the ideal and actual vapor-compression refrigeration cycle and Evaluate the performance of Liquefaction processes
CO4: Understand the relationship connecting T, P and composition originating from the concept of chemical potential and fugacity coefficient
CO5: Understand the principle of chemical reaction thermodynamics for the prediction of equilibrium conversion.

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Sonntag, Borgnakke, Van Wylen, Fundamentals of Thermodynamics, 7th Edition, Wiley India, New Delhi, 2009.
2. Narayanan, K.V. A Textbook of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics Prentice Hall India, 2004
3. Smith, van Ness and Abbott, “Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics”, 7th Edition, McGraw Hill, New York, 2005

REFERENCES:

1. S. I. Sandler, Chemical, Biochemical and Engineering Thermodynamics, Wiley New York, 2006
2. Y V C Rao, “Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics”, Universities Press, Hyderabad 2005.
3. Pradeep ahuja,” Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics”, PHI Learning Ltd (2009).
4. GopinathHalder,” Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics”, PHI Learning Ltd (2009).