Syllabus

Postulational thermodynamics: Review of basic postulates, Maxwell's relations, Legendre transformation, real fluids equilibrium, phase rule, single component phase diagrams, postulational approach to multi-component multiphase equilibrium, Gibbs-Duhem relation and energy minimum principle, alternative fundamental relations and thermodynamic potentials, stability and phase transition.
Statistical thermodynamics: Introduction to classical statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics, Canonical ensemble, microcanonical ensemble, grand canonical ensemble, Boltzmann, Fermi-dirac and Bose Einstein statistics, fluctuations, monoatomic and diatomic gases, phase space, liouville equation, Crystals, intermolecular forces and potential energy functions, imperfect monoatomic gases.
Molecular thermodynamics of fluid phase equilibria: Molecular theory of corresponding states, introduction to molecular simulations, mixtures, partial molar properties, Gibbs Duhems equations, fugacity and activity coefficients, Ideal and non-ideal solutions, Molecular theories of activity coefficients, lattice models, VLE/SLE/LLE/VLLE, chemical equilibrium and combined phase and reaction equilibria, theories of solution and high pressure equilibria.

To make the students aware the essence of Postulational thermodynamics replacing the laws of thermodynamics with postulates so that the formalism of thermodynamics is quite general in nature and independent of heat engines and their performance thus enabling its acceptance to all branches of engineering and in almost all physical and chemical sciences.

To provide deeper understanding of classical thermodynamics through Statistical thermodynamics.

Help to grow proficiency in Multiphase and multicomponent phase equilibria modeling very often enhanced by chemical reaction equilibria

To make the students learn Energy integrated system design and exergy analysis

1. Enable the students to formalize the thermodynamic problems in terms of postulates.

2. This course enables the students to have deeper understanding, hence expertise in solving problem related to Multiphase and multicomponent phase equilibrium.

3. Exergy analysis and integrated system design

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J.M. Prausnitz, R.M. Lichtenthaler and E.G. Azevedo, Molecular thermodynamics of fluid-phase Equilibria, (3rd edition), Prentice Hall Inc., New Jersey , 1996

John W. Daily, Statistical Thermodynamics, An Engineering Approach, Cambridge University Press , 2018

Rao, Y. V. C,, Postulational and statistical thermodynamics, Allied Publisher Ltd , 1996

Fluid Phase Equilibria, Elsevier

Journal of Chemical Emgineering Thermodynamics, Elsevier