Teaching Plan

Branch: Chemical Engineering

Subject: CHEMICAL ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS-II (CH251)

Class: B.Tech II Year - II Semester Academic Year: 2021-22

Teacher: Dr. S. Murali Mohan

No. of Hours per week: 4

Topics: Heat Effects; Solution Thermodynamics; Applications of Solution Thermodynamics; VLE at

low to moderate pressures; Thermodynamic properties and VLE from equations of state; Chemical
Reaction Equilibria
Course Outcomes: At the end of the course, the student will be able to:

CO1 Calculate heat effects involved in industrial chemical processes

CO2 Determine thermodynamic properties of gaseous mixtures / solutions

CO3 Calculate Bubble-P & T, Dew-P & T for binary and multi-component systems

CO4 Calculate vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) composition for ideal and non-ideal
systems

CO5 Determine equilibrium constant and composition of product mixture at given

temperature and pressure

Lecture Plan:

S.No Topic Hours

1 Heat Effects Total 9
• Sensible heat effects
• Temperature dependency of heat capacity
• Latent Heat of pure substance
• Standard heats of reaction, formation and combustion
• Heat effects of industrial reactions
2 VLE at low to moderate pressures Total- 11
• The nature of equilibrium
• Criteria of equilibrium
• The phase rule
• Duhem’s theorem
• Raoult’s law, Henry’s law
• Modified Raoults’s law
• Dew point and bubble point calculations
• Relative volatility
• Flash calculations
• Thermodynamic properties and VLE from equations of
state
 3 Solution Thermodynamics Total 9
• Fundamental property relation
• Chemical potential
• Partial properties
• The ideal gas mixture model
• Fugacity and fugacity coefficient
• The ideal solution model, Excess properties.
4 Applications of Solution Thermodynamics Total- 10
• Liquid phase properties from VLE data
• Activity coefficient
• Excess Gibbs Energy
• Models for the excess Gibbs energy
• Property changes of mixing
• Heat effects of mixing process
5 Chemical Reaction Equilibria Total- 8
• The reaction coordinate
• Equilibrium criteria to chemical reactions
• Gibbs free energy change, Equilibrium constant
• Effect of temperature on equilibrium constant
• Evaluation of equilibrium constants
• Relation of equilibrium constant to composition
• Equilibrium conversions for single reactions
• Phase rule and Duhem’s theorem for reacting systems
• Multi-reaction equilibria.
Total Hours = 47

Method of Evaluation:

Minor Test 1 ---15 Marks;

Mid-Semester Examination---30 Marks;

Minor Test 2 ---15 Marks;

End Semester Examination---40 Marks;

Total--- 100 Marks

Reference Books:

1. Smith J. M, H. C. Van Ness and M. M. Abbott, Introduction to Chemical Engineering

Thermodynamics, 7th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2004.
2. Hougen O. A, Watson. K. M and Ragatz R. A, Chemical Process Principles (Part-II), 2nd Edition,
CBS Publishers, 2004.
3. K. V. Narayanan, Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, Prentice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd., 2009.