An introduction to chemical Thermoodynamics
This book is aimed at students in the fields of molecular or life science and technology. It introduces thermodynamics as a predictive tool and discusses the spontaneity of chemical reactions and the power that can be obtained from fuel cells.
The emphasis of the first part is on applications of the Second Law of Thermodynamics on (bio) chemical processes and the Gibbs energy is introduced as the predictive quantity. The First Law of Thermodynamics is merely introduced to manage the energy resources. The last chapter of the first part deals with the efficiency of processes where the role of entropy is discovered.
The second part is devoted to chemical and physical equilibria. The various relations that exist for equilibria are exposed as universally related to the Gibbs energy. Ideal mixing relations and ideal solution relations are constantly being used as a simplified approach to the real situation. In the last chapter of this part, the deviations from ideality are assessed and the magnitude of the fugacity and activity coefficients is critically discussed.
The book is also aimed at chemical engineering students. These need to know more about processes and their efficiencies. Therefore the last part of the book is devoted to distributed processes. In the first chapter some important aspects of formal thermodynamics are discussed, in particular the role of entropy to identify equilibrium and stability. The second chapter of this part continuous this discussion and introduces the concept of internal entropy production. To discuss these two issues, systems are subdivided into two parts that are not necessarily in equilibrium: the system is inhomogeneous. The final chapter of this part explains how fully inhomogeneous and flowing systems can be dealt with and how entropy production can be managed.
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