
Since the French scientist Ferdinand Carré built the first absorption machine in 1858, it has been intensively developed, and it now offers many possibilities of use. Unit 5 elaborately discusses various gas mixtures and psychrometry topics such as mole and mass fraction, Dalton’s and Amagat’s laws, properties of gas mixture such as molar mass, gas constant, density, change in internal energy, enthalpy, entropy and Gibbs function, psychrometric properties and its calculations for air vapour mixtures by using chart and expressions, psychrometric process such as adiabatic saturation, sensible heating and cooling, humidification, dehumidification, evaporative cooling and adiabatic mixing.Ībsorption is a technology many years old.

This unit also deals with Maxwell relations, Tds Equations, difference and ratio of heat capacities, energy equation, Joule-Thomson coefficient, Clausius Clapeyron equation, phase change processes. Unit 4 dealt with ideal and real gasses under which various topics such as properties of ideal gas, equations of state for ideal and real gases-reduced properties, compressibility factor and generalized compressibility chart are discussed.Unit 3 deals with properties of pure substances, phase rule, p-V, p-T, T-V, T-s, h-s diagrams, PVT surfaces, determination of dryness fraction, application of I and II law for pure substances, ideal and actual Rankine cycles, cycle improvement methods such as reheat and regenerative cycles, economiser, preheater, binary and combined cycles.

