| Lectures: 4 Periods/Week | Sessional Marks: 30 |
| University Exam: 3 Hours | University Examination Marks: 70 |
UNIT-I
Sensible heat effects, temperature dependence of heat capacity, heat effects
accompanying the phase changes, the standard heat of reaction, formation and combustion,
temperature dependence of ΔH°, heat effects of industrial reactions.
UNIT-II
Solution thermodynamics:Fundamental property relation, chemical potential, criterion
for phase equilibria, partial properties, ideal gas mixtures, fugacity and fugacity coefficients,
generalized correlations for fugacity coefficients, the ideal solution, excess properties.
Solution Thermodynamics Applications: Liquid phase properties from VLE data, activity
coefficient, excess Gibb's energy, Gibb's Duhem equation, data reduction, thermodynamic
consistency, models for excess Gibb's energy, property changes of mixing, heat effects of
mixing processes.
UNIT-III
Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium:Nature of equilibrium, Phase rule, Duhem's Theorem, VLE:
Qualitative behavior, simple models for VLE, VLE, modified Raoult's Law, VLE from k - values
correlations. The Gamma / Phi formulation of VLE, VLE from cubic equations of state, equilibrium
and stability, LLE, VLLE, SLE, SVE.
UNIT-IV
Chemical Reaction Equilibrium:The reaction coordinate, application of equilibrium criteria
to chemical reactions, the standard Gibbs-Energy change and the equilibrium constant, effect of
temperature on the equilibrium constant, evaluation of equilibrium constants, relation of
equilibrium constants to composition, equilibrium conversions for single reactions, phase
rule and Duhem's theorem for reacting systems, multireaction equilibria, Fuel cells.
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