Effectiveness of Thermodynamics in various disciplines of Engineering

Energy is of vital anxiety to all of us; fundamental knowledge of energy must form portion of literacy, at least science – literacy. As far as the various engineering streams are concerned, some usual applications of thermodynamics in each stream are listed below:

Aerospace: Propulsion systems for rockets and airplanes.

Chemical Engineering:  Energetic of chemical reactions, production of petrochemicals, petroleum refining, and air pollution abatement.

Civil Engineering: Hydro-electric power generation, power needed for water pumping, energetic of water pollution abatement measures.

Electrical Engineering: Electric generators and motors, direct energy translation.

Electronics &communication engineering: Heat dissipation in electronic devices, information theory.

Metallurgical Engineering: Phase transformations, steel making, and alloying.

Naval Architecture: Ship propulsion.

Ocean Engineering: The tidal energy, wave energy, and Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC).

It might be observed that thermodynamics is essential for mechanical, chemical, and metallurgical engineering, and, however, such disciplines have their own specializations in thermodynamics, correspondingly.