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Chemical Engineering - CHEG 311

Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics

• Determine changes in enthalpy and entropy for liquids.
• Determine changes in enthalpy and entropy for ideal gases.
• Determine changes in enthalpy and entropy for non-ideal gases using PVT relations and your knowledge of multivariate calculus.
• Determine changes in enthalpy and entropy for non-ideal gases using generalized correlations.
• Determine changes in enthalpy for reacting substances.
• Determine changes in enthalpy for vaporizing or condensing pure fluids.
• Apply changes in enthalpy to process calculations.
• Apply changes in entropy to process calculations.
• Determine bubble points and dew points using Raoult’s law and Antoine’s equation.
• Perform phase equilibrium calculations using Henry’s law.
• Perform VLE calculations in combination with material and energy balances for multi-component systems.
• Apply Gibbs’ theorem to determine partial molar property changes for ideal gas mixtures.
• Find the degrees of freedom in an equilibrium system.
• Find fugacity coefficients using generalized correlations.
• Determine the fugacity of a component in a liquid under pressure.
• Determine property changes for ideal solutions.
• Determine Margule’s and van Laar parameters for binary systems from VLE data.
• Given activity coefficient correlations, develop Pxy and Txy diagrams for binary systems.
• Determine excess properties for non-ideal solutions.
• Determine property changes due to mixing.
• Find equilibrium constants for reacting systems from Gibbs energy of formation.
• Find equilibrium constants as a function of temperature using the vant Hoff equation.
• Perform process calculations for mixtures under a state of phase equilibrium using all of the above.
• Perform process calculations for mixtures under a state of reaction equilibrium using all of the above.

Prepared by Dr. D. John Griffith