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Lecture 1 of 36Week 1 : Review of Thermodynamic Principles
Overview of thermodynamic system & state
Prof. Dipankar N. Basu · IIT Guwahati
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All the lectures
- Overview of thermodynamic system & state
- First & second laws of thermodynamics
- Concept of entropy & entropy generation
- Concept of exergy & exergy destruction
- Thermodynamic potentials & Maxwell relations
- Generalized relations for entropy & specific heats
- Joule-Thomson coefficient & Clapeyron equation
- Liquid-vapor phase-change process
- Use of property tables
- Equations-of-state & Compressibility factor
- Lecture 1: Ideal cycles for reciprocating engines
- Lecture 2: Otto, Diesel & Dual combustion cycles
- Lecture 3: Stirling & Ericsson cycles
- Fuel-air cycle
- Numerical exercise on Fuel-air cycles
- Losses in actual cycle & valve-timing diagram
- Ideal Brayton cycle
- Intercooling & reheating in Brayton cycle
- Regeneration in Brayton cycle
- Ideal Rankine cycle
- Improvements & modifications in Rankine cycle
- Regenerative Rankine cycle
- Binary vapor power cycle
- Combined gas-steam power plant
- Different arrangments in combined cycles
- Vapor compression refrigeration cycle
- SSS cycles & refrigerants
- Modifications in VCR systems
- Vapor absorption refrigeration cycle
- P-v-T behavior of gas mixtures
- Numerical examples
- Properties of moist air
- Psychrometric chart & various psychrometric processes
- Sensible heat factor & bypass factor
- Theoretical & actual combustion process
- Thermodynamic analyses of reacting systems