CH 2005 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (3-0) 4 Credits
CH 2005 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (3-0) 4 Credits
(3-0) 4 Credits
Introduction Laws of Thermodynamics Zeroth Law, First Law, Second Law and Third Law and their applications. Volumetric properties of pure fluids. Power production from heat. Refrigeration and Liquefaction. Variable composition systems: Non-Ideal behaviour - Partial molar properties, solution molar properties and Residual properties, Non-ideal gas mixtures, Fugacity and fugacity coefficient of pure species, species in solution, Excess properties, Excess Gibbs energy and the activity coefficient, Excess property relations, Liquid phase properties from VLE data - Models for the excess Gibbs energy, Property change of mixing, Phase equilibrium in non-ideal systems, VLE calculations in non-ideal systems Chemical reaction equilibria: The reaction coordinate, application equilibrium criterion to chemical reactions, the standard Gibbs energy change and the equilibrium constant, effect of temperature on equilibrium constants, relation of equilibrium constants to composition, equilibrium conversion for single reactions, Phase rule and Duhems theorem for reacting systems.
Text Books: 1. Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics by J M Smith, H C Van Ness and M M Abbott, 6th Edition, TMH.