Department of CHEMICAL ENGINEERINGcoretheory

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS

CHE 2121

Syllabus

01Basic concepts and definition: internal energy, work, heat, equilibrium, reversible process, intensive and extensive function
02First law of thermodynamics for non-flow and flow process
03Volumetric properties of pure fluids: PVT behaviour of pure substances, ideal gas law, isobaric, isothermal, adiabatic and Polytropic process, equation of state for real gases, the principles of corresponding states, compressibility factors
04Second law of thermodynamics: Spontaneous process, qualitative difference between heat and work, Kelvin Plank statement, Clausius statement, Carnot principle, irreversibility, entropy, third law of thermodynamics
05Thermodynamic relations: Classification of thermodynamic processes, fundamental property relations, Maxwell's relations and their applications, modified equations for U, H and S, relationship between Cp and Cv, Gibbs Helmholtz equations, Clausius Clapeyron equation
06Phase equilibria: Thermodynamic properties of pure substances: Fugacity and Fugacity Coefficients, Activity and Activity Coefficients, partial molar properties, chemical potential, Gibbs-Duhem equation, Property changes of mixing
07Chemical reaction equilibria: criteria of equilibrium, reaction stoichiometry, effect of temperature on equilibrium constant, Relation of equilibrium constants to composition: gas-phase reactions, liquid-phase reactions, equilibrium conversions for single reactions

K.V.Narayanan, A Text Book of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, Second Edition, Prentice Hall of India, 2013
J.M Smith, H.C.Van Ness and M.M.Abbot, Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics,(7e), McGraw Hill, 2004
T.E. Daubert, Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, McGraw –Hill, 1985
Y.V.C.Rao, Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, Universities Press, 1997

Credits Structure

3Lecture

1Tutorial

0Practical

4Total