Educational guide 2023_24 School of Chemical Engineering

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Introduction to Thermodynamics	Temperature, pressure and other variables of state, properties of ideal gases, equations of state for ideal gases.
First law of Thermodynamics	Work, heat and statement of the first law, heat capacities, calculation of magnitudes related to the first law for ideal systems.
Second and third law of Thermodynamics	Statement of the second law, application to heat engines, entropy, calculation of entropy differences for simple systems. Absolute zero
Thermodynamic equilibrium in the exchange of matter	Chemical potential and Gibbs equation, Helmholtz and Gibbs potentials, phase equilibrium, chemical equilibrium.
Standard thermodynamic functions of reaction	Standard states, standard enthalpies of reaction and formation, dependence of heats of formation on temperature, standard Gibbs energy of formation and reaction.
Chemical equilibrium in ideal gas mixtures	Chemical potential for a mixture of ideal gases, dependence as a function of pressure, dependence of the equilibrium constant with temperature, reaction equilibrium, displacement of the equilibrium by changing the conditions of T and P.
Dissolutions	Composition, mixing quantities, ideal solutions and ideal dilutions. Colligative properties.