Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (II)
- A general review on basic principles and first and second laws of thermodynamics
- Irreversibility and application of the second law of thermodynamics in calculation of reversible work and irreversibility in processes
- Concept and importance of availability in different processes and the ways of its calculation
- Power and refrigeration cycles, description of thermodynamic and mechanical cycles, Rankine cycle, definition of efficiency and the effects of operating parameters on efficiency
- Vapor - compression refrigeration cycles, working fluids for such systems, deviation of the actual cycle from the ideal cycle, the ammonia - absorption refrigeration cycle
- Air standard cycles, air-standard Carnot cycle, air standard Otto cycle, air standard diesel cycle
- The Ericsson and Stirling cycles, The Brayton cycle for the simple gas turbine, The simple gas turbine cycle with regeneration, gas turbine cycle with multi-stage compression, intercooling , reheating and regeneration, jet cycles
- Thermodynamic relations fr single component, The Maxwell relations, Clapeyron relation, relations involving enthalpy, internal energy, entroy and specific heats
- The behavior of real gases, concept of corresponding state, excess functions and residual values, equations of state, the generalized charts for compressibility factor, enthalpy, fugacity and entropy
- Multi-components systems, real mixtures and solutions, dealing with properties of multi-component systems, partial molal properties, general definition of Gibbs free energy, relation for fugacity of each component in multi components systems,
- The ideal solution, Lewis-Randall rule, Henry law, activity and its realtion to other properties, activity coefficient, calculation of activity coefficient from Gibbs excess function, some quations available in literature for activity coefficient
- Phase and chemical equilibrium, requirements for equilibrium, equilibrium between two phases of a pure substance
- Equilibrium of a multi-component, multiphase system, calculations of components mole fractions in each phase, using different models for fugacity of components
- Azeotrope in phase equilibria, prediction of azeotrope formation in systems, calculation of azeotrope pressure and mole fraction of components at azoetrope
- Flash evaporation, calculation of liquid and vapor phase mass and compositions, concept of hypothetical liquid and vapor fugacities
- Chemical equilibrium, equilibrium constant and its relation with Gibbs function, calculation of components concentrations at the chemical equilibrium in single and multiple reactions, the phase rule in systems with chemical reaction and other constrains