ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS

About the book

• This book on Engineering Thermodynamic contains basic principles and fundamental laws of Thermal Engineering. It deals with the gas laws and properties of fluids like pressure, temperature and volume. The book discusses the thermodynamic processes like isothermal, isentropic and polytropic processes. The new concept of availability and irreversibility has been included in the book. The various properties like enthalpy, entropy, internal energy of steam are discussed. The topics on properties of steam and steam cycles like rankine, modified rankine cycles are also presented in the book. The various air standard cycles are analysed and numerical problems are presented throughout the book. The key topics in the book are: * Gas laws and properties * Thermodynamic process * Availability of air standard cycles * Properties of steam and steam cycles * Flow processes * Fuels and combustion * Short questions for viva voce * Steam tables with mollier diagram — enthalpy-entropy charts, etc. The book contains : * 141 Solved numerical examples * 426 Exercises for practice * 219 Objective questions * 115 Self-explanatory and neatly drawn sketches * 40 Useful tables. The book is intended to serve as an introductory text-book for the students of Engineering reading for Degree Examinations of almost all the Universities of India, Diploma Examinations conducted by various Boards of Technical Education, Certificate courses, as well as for the U.P.S.C. and A.M.I.E. Examinations.