BY4008 Thermodynamics for Biological Systems Syllabus:
BY4008 Thermodynamics for Biological Systems Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
OBJECTIVE
This course helps the students to be expert in applying thermodynamic principles to various chemical engineering processes involving energy flow, phase and reaction equilibrium.
UNIT I THERMODYNAMIC LAWS
Basic thermodynamic concepts, Energy and first Law; Reversibility and second Law; Review of Basic Postulates, equation of state and its applications, corresponding states, equilibrium criteria, Legendre Transformation and Maxwell’s relations
UNIT II GIBBS PHASE RULE
Phase rule, Stability of thermodynamic systems, first order phase transitions and critical phenomenon, single component phase diagrams, thermodynamic properties from volumetric and thermal data
UNIT III SOLUTION THERMODYNAMICS
Partial molar properties, Gibbs-Duhem equation, fugacities in gas and liquid mixtures, activity coefficients, Ideal and Non-ideal solutions, azeotropes, Wilson, NRTL, and UNIQUAC equations, UNIFAC method.
UNIT IV PHASE EQUILIBRIA
Vapour Liquid Equilibrium involving low pressure, high pressures and multi component systems, VLE in ideal and non- ideal solutions, Henry’s Law, Other phase equilibriums- SLE/LLE/VLLE.
UNIT V CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIA
Criteria of chemical reaction equilibrium in thermodynamic systems, Homogeneous gas and liquid phase reactions, heterogeneous reactions – phase and chemical equilibrium
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:
The students will be able to
CO1: Associate the concepts of energy, laws of thermodynamics to applications that require quantitative knowledge of thermodynamic properties at macroscopic level.
CO2: Understand the thermodynamics of phase equilibria typically encountered in design of chemical processes such as separation operations.
CO3: Relate the theoretical results used to physical systems that convert matter and energy in terms of the laws of thermodynamics.
CO4: Analyze many of the thermodynamic properties of dilute solutions can be derived analytically from statistical formulations.
CO5: Apply the various phase equilibrium models in practical situations
CO6: Apply in the area of thermodynamics principles to various chemical engineering processes
REFERENCES
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