RME4C002
RME4C002
Tech (Mechanical Engineering) Syllabus from Admission Batch 2018-19 4th Semester
Review of First and Second laws, First law analysis of steady and unsteady flow control volumes,
Entropy generation ,Entropy balance for closed systems and steady flow systems.
Available energy, Quality of energy, Availability for non flow and flow process, Irreversibility,
Exergy balance, Second law efficiency.
General Thermodynamic property relations: The Maxwell relations, The Clapeyron equation,
The TdS relations, Isothermal compressibility and volume expansivity, The Joule-Thomson
coefficient.
Vapour Power Cycles: The Carnot vapor cycle and its limitations, The Rankine cycle, Means of
increasing the Rankine cycle efficiency, The reheat cycle, The regenerative feed heating cycle,
Cogeneration (Back pressure and Pass-out turbines), Combinedcycle power generation systems,
Binary vapour cycles.
Gas Power Cycles: Air standard cycles- Otto, Diesel, Dual Combustion and Brayton cycles, The
Brayton cycle with non-isentropic flow in compressors and turbines, The Brayton cycle with
regeneration, reheating and intercooling, Ideal jet propulsion cycles.
Refrigeration cycles: Reversed Carnot cycle, Reversed Brayton cycle (Gas refrigeration system),
The vapor compression cycle, The vapor absorption cycle.
Reciprocating Air Compressors: Introduction (Uses of compressed air), The reciprocating cycle
neglecting and considering clearance volume, Volumetric efficiency and its effect on compressor
performance, Limitations of single stage compression, Multistage compression and intercooling,
Optimum intercooler pressure, Performance and design calculations of reciprocating compressors,
Air motors.
Books:
• Engineering Thermodynamics by P. K. Nag, Publisher:TMH
• Engineering Thermodynamics by P. Chattopadhyay, OXFORD
• Fundamentals of Thermodynamics by Sonntag, Borgnakke, Van Wylen, John Wiley &
Sons
• Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics by E. Rathakrishnan, PHI B.Tech
(Mechanical Engineering ) detail Syllabus for Admission Batch 2015-16 3rd Semester
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B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering) Syllabus from Admission Batch 2018-19 4th Semester
• Thermodynamics An Engineering Approach by Yunus A.Cingel and Michale A.Boles
,TMH
• Engineering Thermodynamics by M.Achyuthan, PHI
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