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Applied Thermodynamics

By Prof. V. Raghavan   |   IIT Madras
Learners enrolled: 901   |  Exam registration: 13
ABOUT THE COURSE:
Objectives: Analysis of practical devices/applications using first andsecond law; applications such assteam and gas turbinepower plants, vapor compression refrigeration devices, sparkignition and compression ignition IC engines, psychrometry,combustion of fuels and compressible flow through nozzles.
Outcomes: Students should be able to (1) carry out a thermodynamic analysis of any device and evaluate the first law and second law efficiencies andany other thermodynamic property of interest (2) computethermodynamic properties of interest at theexit of a nozzle with air or steam as the working substance.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Under Graduate students

PREREQUISITES: Engineering Thermodynamics or Basic thermodynamics
Summary
Course Status : Upcoming
Course Type : Core
Language for course content : English
Duration : 12 weeks
Category :
  • Mechanical Engineering
Credit Points : 3
Level : Undergraduate
Start Date : 20 Jan 2025
End Date : 11 Apr 2025
Enrollment Ends : 27 Jan 2025
Exam Registration Ends : 14 Feb 2025
Exam Date : 03 May 2025 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.


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Course layout

Week 1: 
1) Introduction
2) Derivation of entropy change of control volume, entropy generation due to internal irreversibility.
3) Worked examples on entropy change of control volume and entropy generation.
4) Worked examples on entropy change of control volume and entropy generation.
5) Work interaction of internally reversible steady flow processes
6) Tutorial – 1, Entropy change of a control volume

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

Week 3: 
1) Exergy of a system
2) Derivation of exergy of system, exergy transfer and exergy change
3) Exergy transfer and exergy change for system and control volume.
4) Worked examples on exergy transfer and exergy change of system.
5) Worked examples on exergy transfer and exergy change of control volumes.
6) Tutorial – 4, Exergy transfer and exergy change of a system

Week 4: Tutorials – 5 & 6, Exergy transfer and exergy change of a system and control volume

Week 5: 
1) Thermodynamic cycle –Rankine cycle
2) Open feed water heater in Rankine cycle
3) Closed feed water heater and super critical Rankine cycle
4) Air standard cycle- Basic Brayton cycle
5) Worked examples on basic Brayton cycle.
6) Brayton cycle with intercooling and Reheat.

Week 6: 
1) Worked example on Brayton cycle with intercooling and reheat.
2) Brayton cycle with reheat, regeneration and intercooling.
3) Air standard Otto cycle and worked example of air standard Otto cycle.
4) Air standard Diesel cycle
5) Worked example of air standard Diesel cycle
6) Ideal vapor compression refrigeration cycle and worked example

Week 7: 
1) Psychrometry – Introduction, Moist air
2) Worked examples on moist air.
3) Application of first law to psychrometric process and worked examples.
4) Wet bulb and adiabatic saturation temperature and worked examples.
5) Tutorial – 7, Psychrometry

Week 8: 
1) Air conditioning process, Psychrometric chart
2) Worked example on psychrometric chart
3) Adiabatic mixing of two streams, cooling tower
4) Tutorials – 8 & 9, Air conditioning process, Psychrometric chart

Week 9: 
1) Combustion Thermodynamics – Stoichiometry, excess air
2) Enthalpy of formation and sensible enthalpy
3) Tutorials – 10 & 11, Stoichiometry, enthalpy of formation, sensible enthalpy

Week 10: 
1) Enthalpy of combustion and calorific value and worked examples.
2) Adiabatic flame temperature and entropy generation in combustion
3) Tutorials – 12 & 13, Enthalpy of combustion, adiabatic flame Temperature and entropy generation in combustion

Week 11: 
1) Compressible flow through nozzles – Compressibility and compressible flow
2) Governing equation, acoustic wave propagation speed
3) Mach number, sonic and stagnation state
4) Illustration of states in the T-s and P-v diagram
5) Normal shock waves, Illustration of normal shock solution in the T-s and P-v diagram
6) Worked example on shock wave
7) Tutorial – 14, Normal shock waves

Week 12: 
1) Quasi one dimensional analysis, choked flow
2) Flow through a convergent nozzle
3) Flow through a convergent divergent nozzle
4) Worked example on convergent divergent nozzle
5) Flow of steam through nozzles
6) Worked example on flow of steam through nozzles

Books and references

1.Sonntag, R. E, Borgnakke, C. and Van Wylen, G. J., 2003, 6th Edition, Fundamentals of Thermodynamics, John Wiley and Sons.
2.Moran, M. J. and Shapiro, H. N., 1999, Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, John Wiley and Sons.
3.Babu, V., Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, ANE Books Pvt. Ltd. 2018.
4.Venkatesh, A. Basic Engineering Thermodynamics, Universities Press (India) Limited, 2007.

Instructor bio

Prof. V. Raghavan

IIT Madras
Prof. V. Raghavan obtained his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai, India. He did his post-doctoral research in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA He joined IITM in 2007 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is currently working as a professor. He teaches courses such as Thermodynamics, Applied Thermal Engineering, Fundamentals of Combustion, Theory of Fire Propagation, Combustion Technology, etc. His areas of research include evaporation and combustion of liquid fuel droplets, laminar flames, fire modeling, CFD for reacting flows, flame spread and liquid fuel pool combustion, and coal gasification.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: May 3, 2025 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

Please note that assignments encompass all types (including quizzes, programming tasks, and essay submissions) available in the specific week.

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team


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