About Book:

             We are pleased to bring out our Sixth revised edition of “Engineering Thermodynamics”  for Engineering and Technology studies. This book is written to serve the needs of undergraduate students embarking introductory course in Engineering Thermodynamics. This book is designed to meet the requirement of revised syllabus prescribed by the Anna University Chennai, Trichy, Coimbatore & Tirunelveli for 3rd Semester Mechanical And Automobile engineering students of its affiliated colleges.

            Unit 1 deals with basic concepts, classical and statistical approaches. Thermodynamic systems, Zeroth law of thermodynamics. First law of thermodynamics applied to closed & open systems and steady flow processes with reference to various engineering applications.

            Unit 2  has wide coverage of second law of Thermodynamics in which various topics such as reversibility and irreversibility, Carnot cycle, reversed Carnot cycle, Thermodynamic temperature scale, Clausius inequality, concepts of entropy, entropy changes in various thermodynamic processes, principles of increase in entropy and availability are discussed.

            Unit 3 deals with properties of pure substances, phase rule, p-V, p-T, T-V, T-s, h-s diagrams, PVT surfaces, standard Rankine cycle, reheat and regenerative cycle.

Unit 4 deals with ideal and real gasses under which various topics such as gas mixtures. Avagadro’s law, Vander waals equation of states, compressibility, compressibility chart, T-ds relations, Maxwell relations, Clausius Clapeyron equations and Joule Thomson coefficient are discussed.

            Properties of gas mixture, Gas laws, Gibbs function ,Psychrometry and Psychrometric charts, air vapour mixtures, psychrometric processes, processes, adiabatic mixing, and evaporative cooling are elaborately treated in Unit 5.