MY1201 METALLURGICAL THERMODYNAMICS
1. CONCEPTS AND THERMODYNAMIC LAWS
Basic concepts and definitions, first law of thermodynamics, thermochemistry, enthalpy function and heat capacity, heat of reaction Hess’s law, Kirchhoff’s law, heat balances, maximum flame temperature on combustion of fuel. Second law, entropy change for a chemical reaction, variation of entropy change with temperature, criteria of spontaneity based on entropy, combined statements of first and second law, Cp-Cv relations.
2. FREE ENERGY AND PHASE EQUILIBRIA
Gibbs and Helmoltz free energy functions, Maxwell equations, Criteria of spontaneity based on free energies, Gibbs - Helmoltz equation, Clausius Clapeyron equation and its application to phase changes, Trouton's rule, concept of fugacity, activity and equilibrium constant, Vant Hoff’s equation and its integration, Ellingham diagrams, equilibria involving ideal gases and pure condensed phases.
3. SOLUTION THERMODYNAMICS
Introduction to solutions, mole fraction, partial molar quantities, chemical potential Gibbs-Duhem equation, determination of partial molar quantities from integral molar quantities, Ideal solution and Raoult's law, Non ideal solution and concept of activity coefficient, Dilute solutions and Henry's law, application of the Gibbs-Duhem equation, Alternative standard states.
4. MULTI-COMPONENT SOLUTIONS
Sievert's law, Mixing functions, Excess functions, Regular solutions, Dilute multicomponent solutions and Interaction co-efficients, third law of thermodynamics and its application.
5. KINETICS
Activity and free energy - composition diagrams and their application in establishing simple phase diagrams. Introduction to kinetics, reaction kinetic theories - collision and absolute reaction rates, effect of concentration on rate of reactions; order of reaction, effect of temperature on reaction rate, determination of the order of a reaction, concept of over all rate of reaction, importance of transport kinetics.
TEXT BOOKS
1. Ahindra Ghosh, “Textbook of Materials and Metallurgical Thermodynamics” Prentice-Hall of India Pvt. Ltd. Delhi, 2003.
2. Upadhyaya, G.S., and Dube.R.K., “Problems in Metallurgical Thermodynamics and Kinetics”, I Edition, Pergamon Press, 1977.
REFERENCES
1. Gaskell D R, “Introduction to Thermodynamics of Materials”, III Ed., Taylor & Francis, Indian Reprint, 2003
2. Robert T Dehoff, “Themodynamics in Materials Science”, McGraw-Hill Inc., 1993.
3. Tupkary R.H., “Metallurgical Thermodynamics”, Khanna Publications, New Delhi, 1995.
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