JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

MT304ES: THERMAL SCIENCE

B.Tech II Year I Semester (R16)

UNIT - I

Introduction: Basic Concepts: System, Control Volume, Surrounding, Boundaries, Universe, Types of Systems, Macroscopic and Microscopic viewpoints, Concept of Continuum, Thermodynamic Equilibrium, State Property, Process, Cycle – Reversibility – Quasi – static Process, Irreversible Process Work and Heat, Point and Path function.

UNIT - II

Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics: Concept of quality of Temperature – Principles of Thermometry – Reference Points – Const. Volume gas Thermometer – Scales of Temperature, Ideal Gas Scale – PMM I - Joule’s Experiments – First law of Thermodynamics – Corollaries – First law applied to a Process – applied to a flow system – Steady Flow Energy Equation. Limitations of the First Law

UNIT - III

Second Law of Thermodynamics: Kelvin-Planck and Clausius Statements and their Equivalence / Corollaries, PMM of Second kind, Carnot’s principle, Carnot cycle and its specialties, Thermodynamic scale of Temperature, Clausius Inequality, Entropy, Principle of Entropy Increase – Energy Equation, Statement of Third Law of Thermodynamics.

UNIT - IV

Power Cycles: Otto, Diesel, Dual Combustion cycles, – Description, and representation on P–V and T-S diagram, Thermal Efficiency, Mean Effective Pressures on Air standard basis – comparison with Ideal and Actual Cycles.

UNIT - V

I.C. Engines: Classification – Two & Four Stroke Engines, Working principles, Valve and Port Timing Diagrams, - Types Engine arrangement systems. Fuels used, Modes of fuel Admission to engine cylinder, carburetor, Fuel Injector, Ignition, Cooling and Lubrication systems.

TEXT BOOKS:

  • 1. Thermal Engineering / Rajput / Lakshmi Publications
  • 2. Engineering Thermodynamics – P.K Nag, TMH
  • 3. I.C. Engines – V. Ganesan, TMH
  • 4. Thermal Sciences – Merle C. Potter, Elaine P. Scott, Cengage Learning

REFERENCE BOOKS:

  • 1. Engineering Thermodynamics – Jones & Dugan
  • 2. Thermodynamics – An Engineering Approach – Yunus Cengel & Boles /TMH
  • 3. Thermodynamics – J. P. Holman / Mc Graw Hill
  • 4. An introduction to Thermodynamics / YVC Rao / University Press

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