Department of PHE
II Year [Link]. PHE II-Sem
B V Raju Institute of Technology
Chemical and Process Thermodynamics
(PHE)
Course Hours /
Code Category Week Credits Maximum Marks
L T P C CIE SEE Total
A64J1 PC
3 - - 3 40 60 100
Pre-Requisites: Chemical Process Calculations and Fluid Mechanics
Course Objectives: To learn
1. To understand the basic concepts of laws of thermodynamics
2. To analyse the thermodynamic fluid properties and their correlations
3. To explore the thermodynamics liquid properties
4. To study the vapour-liquid phase equilibrium
5. To study the equilibrium constants of chemical reactions.
Course Outcomes:
After completing the course, the students are able to:
1. Describe the basic concepts of laws of thermodynamics
2. Develop the thermodynamic fluid properties and their correlations
3. Apply the thermodynamics liquid properties
4. Describe the vapour-liquid phase equilibrium
5. Analyse the equilibrium constants of chemical reactions.
UNIT-I (Classes-9)
First law of thermodynamics - Types of energy, work, heat and energy changes, and applications of
first law to different processes. Second law of thermodynamics and its applications - Entropy,
reversible and irreversible processes, Carnot cycle, T-S diagrams, enthalpy of mixing and disorder;
refrigeration and liquefaction.
UNIT-II (Classes-9)
Thermodynamic properties of fluids and their interrelationship: PVT behaviour of pure substances;
Equation of state; Generalized correlations and acentric factor; PVT behaviour of mixtures;
Thermodynamics charts; Estimation of thermodynamic properties. Thermodynamic properties and
relations among them, mathematical relationships among basic properties, Maxwell relations.
UNIT-III (Classes-9)
Solution properties - Partial molal properties and chemical potential, concept of fugacity and activity
and their calculations, ideal and non-ideal solutions, Gibbs - Duhem equations, property change of
mixing and excess properties.
UNIT-IV (Classes-10)
Phase equilibria - Phase rule, fundamentals of vapour - liquid equilibria, Vanlaar, Margules and
Wilson- equations for binary mixture, liquid - liquid, solid – liquid and solid - vapour equilibria.
UNIT-V (Classes-8)
Chemical equilibrium: Chemical equilibrium constants; Homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions;
Standard Gibbs free energy change; Equilibrium conversion in single and multiple reactions.
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